Re: PROBLEM: 12.1 version of Word 2008 will not open WinWord .doc files?

In article <1ih10re.1qybecu1rhqgsxN%korventeen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Corentin Cras-Méneur <korventeen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Steve Maser <maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > "different"?  Or "related"?
> > 
> > Might be worth asking if people seeing the double-click problem are
> > having the .dot problem.
> 
> I haven't yet seen anyone using Safari and having the double-click
> problem.
> 
> Can I ask you what browser and e-mail client you are using Steve??
> 
> Corentin


Web browser -- Safari 3.1.1 

E-mail program -- Eudora 6.2.4.   I'm not seeing this in Eudora 8
(based on Thunderbird 3.0), but that seems to use a different method of
decoding attachments.

And if I .zip the attachments to myself and send them along that way,
when they are unzipped they open.


I'm certainly willing to point the finger at Eudora 6.2.4, based on
it's age.  However an office update shouldn't render thousands of
do***ents (basically) unopenable.   (And other posters have listed
other e-mail applications so I don't think it's limited to Eudora --
but the MacBU can certainly test that...)

And there is the odd twist to this that Safari 3.1.1/Office 2008 12.1
isn't having either problem under 10.4.11 (at least here.)


But -- let's be real -- using "File --> Open" to manage do***ents is
unreasonable these days...  Microsoft changed something unexpectedly
and it broke everything for many people.   They need to fix this.

- Steve