I'm forced to save Word doc attachements before opening them

[Guest]

I used to be able to double-click on an attachment to open it. Now, when I do
that, a dialog box with SAVE & CANCEL opens up, along with a warning message.
I have to save the attachment, exit the mail and open the saved version of
the attachment ... All rather clunky and inconvenient. How can I switch this
off in Outlook?
I think this new 'feature' may have been installed with one of the automatic
updates that Windows does?
My current version of Outlook is 2003 (11.8002.6568) SP2

 

[Guest]

This worked:

<snip>try cleaning out the Outlook Secure Temp Folder.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

This worked:

<snip>try cleaning out the Outlook Secure Temp Folder.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

Nonetheless, you shouldn't be editing attachments within mail messages.
You're begging for trouble.

 

[Guest]

Nice to be able to read them directly from there. The trash them or save them
for later work. But your suggestion (I found in another post) worked - Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Nice to be able to read them directly from there. The trash them or
save them for later work.

Read them or save them, sure. Even if they're read-only you should be able
to do that. Just don't change them without saving them to a non-temporary
location first, then change the save copy.

But your suggestion (I found in another post) worked - Thanks!

That's great. You're welcome.