I am having the same problem. I can open and use .docx documents at work, but
cannot at home on my laptop. The laptop is running XP, IE8 and MS Outlook Web
Access 2003. Earlier I Googled ".docx zip file" and read someone's comment
that this problem is related to IE8.

Anybody got any suggestions???

"nigs11" wrote:

> have recently upgraded to IE8 and when using MS Office webmail I cannot
> download *.docx and *.xlsx and they turn ibto zip files? No problem when
> using IE7 or with *.xls or *.doc files - Amy one else had an issue?