Goldfoot,
All that has been suggested in a quite comparable recent discussion http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6129-0.html?forumID=29&threadID=141830&messageID=1590871 was to do a repair install of Office. Please let us know it it corrects the problem.
Kees
I'm running WinXP and up until last night didn't have a problem with opening for example an Excel spreadsheet as an attachment in Outlook.
Now I find no MS Office email attachments will open, the only way to get them to open is to save the attachment first.
I would be grateful if someone could let me know how to sort this weird phenomena. I haven't installed ANY new software or made any changes to my computer BTW.
Many thanks

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