Dave Horne wrote:

I think it is possible I am being missunderstood.

The issue is this - with Outlook 2002 (under Vista Home Premium),
when I receive an attachment and I click on that attachment, I
receive a message to either Save or Open the file in question. There
is also a grayed out box where I _could_ have clicked on the mssage
)if it were not grayed out), Always ask when opening this type of
file'.
This has nothing per se to do with a *.doc file, I just want to have
that grayed out box not grayed out.

And, as I said, that box has always been controlled by WIndows in the Folder
Options. What I described was for Windows XP. While I don't know how to
find it in Vista, surely there must be an equivalent area.
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Brian Tillman