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opening attached files in email?

pls help. i received an email with two attachments. one was pdf which was no problem, but the other was a form that ended in .doc. after downloading i tried to open but got word msg cannot load word for windows 6.0 files. can you help me? thank-you so much

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You have a file that was prepared with a Word version that is newer than yours. You can get a Word reader from this site:

    http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.mspx

    You can also ask your sender to save the file with your format. They can do that through the File, Save As functions in Word.

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    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    comparable factor is happening to me! So troublesome pondering e-mails are regularly time-delicate products. it is likewise very valuable of Yahoo! to enable actually everyone understand that they are having subject concerns (no longer!). i've got tried for the final 24 hours to get ahold of somebody, hit upon a answer and can't discover something. rather switching to Google.

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