When receiving attached files in email, I continue to receive small Word
files as zipped documents. The sender has not zipped them. How do I stop my
Outlook from zipping the files?

Does this happen only from that one person or do you get zipped documents
from all senders? If from only that one person, what e-mail client is he/she
using? What ISP does he/she use? It may be that your Outlook is not zipping
them (I am not aware of Outlook's ability to do that) but rather they are
arriving already zipped.

Tim

"Tact" <Tact@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When receiving attached files in email, I continue to receive small Word
> files as zipped documents. The sender has not zipped them. How do I stop
> my
> Outlook from zipping the files?

They are being zipped prior to you receiving them, either by the sender or
something they have running on their end.

Outlook will not (and cannot that I'm aware of) perform this action on
arrival.

Joe

"Tact" <Tact@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When receiving attached files in email, I continue to receive small Word
> files as zipped documents. The sender has not zipped them. How do I stop
> my
> Outlook from zipping the files?

Some ISPs do that automatically. (AOL is notorious for doing it.) It's not a
setting you can change.

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"Tact" <Tact@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8821F29D-6515-498D-ADA3-A2FB2C2FF900@microsoft.com...
> When receiving attached files in email, I continue to receive small Word
> files as zipped documents. The sender has not zipped them. How do I stop
> my
> Outlook from zipping the files?

Hi, Tact,

As the other resopnders mentioned, it's not likely that Outlook is doing
this.

I'm wondering a couple of things: Do the files have the .zip extension, or
are they just displayed as the zipped icon?

Do you have a virus checker, and is it up to date?

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MVP - Office

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help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!


"Tact" <Tact@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8821F29D-6515-498D-ADA3-A2FB2C2FF900@microsoft.com...
> When receiving attached files in email, I continue to receive small Word
> files as zipped documents. The sender has not zipped them. How do I stop
> my
> Outlook from zipping the files?