Install Office 2007 on your home machine.

"Robinsdland" <Robinsdland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>