Is he getting an error message?

Does the attachment open in the wrong program?

Is the problem only when he attempts to open the attachment from with
OE? Does it perhaps say that Windows doesn't know what program to use,
but if he saves the attachment, then double click it does it open OK?

See the Identifying Attachment File Types and Setting File Associations
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...e.htm#identify

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"barrowhill" wrote in message
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Friend just contaced me with this problem...........

"I have a new PC. I have problems with emails with attachments, I
notice it
with word, it may happen to others but most attachments I get are
word. My
system does not seem to recognise them as word attachments, I suspect
it's
just a security setting somewhere but cannot find it"

Can anyone help ???