Can't open a msn attatchment with wordpad

[mark146914]

i got a attatchment from someone i know in hotmail and i can't seem to open it. i get a message saying that wordpad has caused an error in MSWRD832.CNV and then wordpad closes. i can't open it in wordperfect or notepad either. all of my other wordpad files work. what do i do to get it to work?

[John Prophet]

What kind of atachment is it?

Dont you have to download it first when its hotmail? Since hotmail isnt on your comp but actually on their servers etc

[mark146914]

it is a .doc i downloaded the attatchment on hotmail.com

[doddsy]

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?id=8877

this might help

doddsy

[John Prophet]

openoffice would probably open it.

[mark146914]

the file is a microsoft word coument...but i do not have microsfot word PERIOD. So now what can I do?

[doddsy]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=276337

another link i'm afraid but this one looks promising.

i had a similar problem recently and this is pretyty much how i got round it............but the link explains it much better than i could.

click the link and scroll down to the "workaround"

[mark146914]

Everything that, that says means I would have to have microsoft office or word which I do not....

[doddsy]

another temporary solution might be to email the doc to a friend with word ask them to open it, paste the contents directly onto an email back to you then you paste the contents of their email into whatever word processing app. you have.

[DallasDon]

Uhhh...did ya'll read JP's post?

Open office/FREEBIE