Word 2007 Read Only Errors

[Magamus]

Whenever I receive a Word document from someone else through email (both
..docx and .doc files), I get an error stating that the file is a read-only
file. This is weird to begin with, but after I click OK, this error message
appears again and again. I have to move the mouse to the close button or the
save as button and hit spacebar to select OK and then close or save the
document with a new name. This does not happen if I save the attachment to
my HD and open the document myself (from my local drives or the network
drives).

Why is this happening? Is it a communication problem between Outlook and
Word? Is there a fix for this? I should not have to save the email
attachment each time that I want to open the document (especially if it is
just a print request).

I am using Office 2007 Professional Plus on a Windows XP Professional system.

 

[Terry Farrell]

It is a security feature that forces you to save an attachment to your local
HDD before you can open it. This is to ensure that the attachment is really
what it seems and that the AV and Malware scanners are able to fully scan
the attachment before it is opened.

 

[Magamus]

Is there a way to turn this off? I guess I understand the advantage to my
computer's security but is it really necessary? Another problem I have
noticed about this is that when I open the doc from email, every time I hit
OK for the read-only error notification Word creates a NEW temp file on my
desktop! I just cleared out 374 or them this morning..

 

[Terry Farrell]

I guess that there is a way to beat anything in Windows: but I don't know
about this one. I would guess there is a registry hack to defeat it.

Terry

 

[Magamus]

No, it's a work computer. I guess I'll just have to get into the habit of
saving the files first before I open them (maybe it's read only because
Outlook has "opened" them?)

Thank you for the definitive answer though!