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Office files received thru mail blocked

Aug 6, 2017 1:14AM PDT

Windows 7 pro 64bits, office 7 on several computers.
Since some months, when i received a mail ,whith a word file attached, and i want to open it, i received a msg " could be corrupted could not open".
This is the same for power point files.
I did not found a way to correct this problem.
Any body could help me ? Tks

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Re: " could be corrupted could not open"
Aug 6, 2017 5:14AM PDT

That's a bad translation from French, most likely, since https://www.google.com/search?q=%22could+be+corrupted+could+not+open%22 only finds your post here, and nothing else.
Try searching the original untranslated message.
Moreover, there is no office 7. There's MS Office XP=2002, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 365, but no 7.

It's usual for Office to open files received via mail or downloaded from Internet with a security warning. But when you say you want to open it anyway, that works fine and if you save it, it won't give that message again. That's quite something else than "could not open".

Try copying those files to a FAT32 formatted USB-stick and back again. Then it loses the metadata telling where it came from. Does that work?

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Simple reply
Aug 9, 2017 3:03AM PDT

Yes I am french and my US friends told me last month : "Mike you should brush on your English..."
I try.
Copy with a fat USB did not help, same msg.
The Msg board I got, say : Word could not open this document. It probably corrupted. Follow the following operations : 1 open and repair the file. 2 open the file with the text converter and back-up.

With the 2 item i got the text but loose the form...

I do not found a solution so far.
I also met same type of problem with received file from Power Point or MP4 for Media Player.

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Re: corrupted
Aug 9, 2017 3:15AM PDT

If you can't read/present/play it from that USB-stick on another PC also, most likely it is corrupted.

Do the same download from the same mail in your webmail on another PC. if it works there, do a byte-by-byte comparison of the two files (the one downloaded and found corrupted on your PC and the one downloaded and readable on the other PC) to see if it's really, really, exactly the same or not.

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answer 2
Aug 9, 2017 9:24AM PDT

I did the comparaison on 2 PC's. They are the really the same.
I will re-send the file received to the author, asking him to compare his own file to the one I received. I let you know the result. Tks,

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final reply
Aug 10, 2017 12:10AM PDT

The autor of the document confirmed that he could not read the document I sent him. He resent the original and it works fine. Problem closed for me. Tks.

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cau lo mb
Aug 21, 2017 5:46PM PDT