That worked!!! Thank you so much! I didn't even know that existed!!

"Bob I" wrote:

> In that case,try Help, Detect and Repair in Word or Excel.
>
> SouthLake wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I only have Ad-Aware, CCleaner, and Win Patrol on this computer. Same as I
> > have on my desktop, and I can open my e-mail attachments on that one ok.
> > It's like when I try to open an Office attachment, my computer isn't
> > recognizing that I have Word and Excel on the computer, and is giving me the
> > Unknown File Type error.
> >
> > "Bob I" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Anti-virus scanner perhaps interfering? They might have reset it to scan
> >>attachments during an update.
> >>
> >>SouthLake wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello, I am only having this problem on my laptop. When I try to download or
> >>>open any kind of Office attachment, like Word or Excel, I'm getting an error
> >>>message stating "Do you want to save this file, or find a program online to
> >>>open it?" And then underneath that it says "Unknown File Type".
> >>>
> >>>I have Word, Excel and the entire office suite on my laptop. I can open up
> >>>Word and Excel on my own (not as an attachment) and there is no problem.
> >>>This just started all of a sudden and I can't open any attachments at all!
> >>>Please help!
> >>
> >>
>
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