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Ron Nossaman RNossaman@cox.net
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:48:16 -0600


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>MS Word is not as "standard" as you think it is. There is MS Word 6.0; MS 
>Word for 95; MS Word for 97/2000/XP and each one is lightly different in 
>format. I'm using OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) and it allows you to 
>save an MS Word document in each one of these formats. And, for that 
>matter, Outlook Express 6.0 may not be able to read all of these formats.


Outlook express doesn't read ANY of these formats, nor does it attempt to 
unless, of course, it's a virus - which it will embrace like a long lost 
sibling. This is an attachment with a ".DOC" suffix, and is read, or not 
read, by the version of Word installed on the recipient's system. First, 
check the file association. Right click on the attachment and go to "open 
with" to insure that at the very least it is Word that is trying to open 
the file, rather than something totally unsuited. If it opens in a readable 
format, great. If not, it was apparently not meant to be read on your 
system. Accept it, and mail in $25 to Microsoft in hopes that they won't 
sue you for attempting to do anything nominally productive with their 
purported operating system du jour.

I hope that's not too negative...

Ron N

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