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When I recieve emails with attachments, there sent as application/msword file
types. But after scanning and downloading my computer saves it in wordpad.
When it's saved in wordpad I can't access the links enclosed. How do I
change the file type when downloading an email?

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"A desperate college student" <A desperate college
student@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in news:C780C0EA-B413-4A49-9230-51E1B922DAC8@microsoft.com:
> When I recieve emails with attachments, there sent as
> application/msword file types. But after scanning and downloading my
> computer saves it in wordpad. When it's saved in wordpad I can't
> access the links enclosed. How do I change the file type when
> downloading an email?

Open Explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types, and find the
..doc file. Change it to open using Word. You do have MS Word, right?

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