Unable to open a .doc

[Guest]

Hi

I've been trying to open a file from the NHS public website which ends .doc
(says the type is doc_auto_file) without success.

When I click to open or save a message comes up saying "Internet Explorer
wants to open web content - NAME - Windows Wordpad Application / Publisher -
Microsoft Windows" & get to choice to allow or not allow. When I click on
"allow" all that comes up in the document is a random selection of
letters/numbers/symbols.

Can anyone please advise on a way round this on vista (without resulting to
getting rid of it!!) - I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 already installed on
my computer as thought that would enable to open these documents.

Hope someone can help

 

[Paul Smith]

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Hi

I've been trying to open a file from the NHS public website which ends
.doc
(says the type is doc_auto_file) without success.

When I click to open or save a message comes up saying "Internet Explorer
wants to open web content - NAME - Windows Wordpad Application /
Publisher -
Microsoft Windows" & get to choice to allow or not allow. When I click on
"allow" all that comes up in the document is a random selection of
letters/numbers/symbols.

Can anyone please advise on a way round this on vista (without resulting
to
getting rid of it!!) - I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 already installed
on
my computer as thought that would enable to open these documents.

Hope someone can help

What's the URL to the document? I'll have a look.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

Paul - think I've sorted it - seems it was to do with "compatability" of
documents - thanks for the offer of help though - much appreciated.

 

[brownidgirl]

Paul - think I've sorted it - seems it was to do with "compatability" of
documents - thanks for the offer of help though - much appreciated.

 

[brownidgirl]

How was you able to get the page to read in english instead of all the symbols?