I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but here goes:
Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via Outlook and
using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip file that I cannot use.
Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the situation?
Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program be set
to zip all files it sends?
Why can't you unzip it?
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia 's Muire duit
"Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but here
> goes:
> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via Outlook and
> using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip file that I cannot
> use.
>
> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the situation?
>
> Thanks in advance.
No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word 2007
files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed with a .docx
extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip extension. When you
unzip them, they don't display as Word documents but produce of what I think
are the XML files.
"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program be set
> to zip all files it sends?
>
> Why can't you unzip it?
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit
>
>
>
> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> > I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but here
> > goes:
> > Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via Outlook and
> > using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip file that I cannot
> > use.
> >
> > Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the situation?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
appropriate.
The probable cause of the problem is that many web and mail servers still
haven't been updated with MIME types for the new formats -- even though
"new" now means "released more than a year ago". The problem is on the
server's end, not yours.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
Kathy wrote:
> No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word
> 2007 files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed
> with a .docx extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip
> extension. When you unzip them, they don't display as Word documents
> but produce of what I think are the XML files.
>
>
> "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
>
>> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program
>> be set to zip all files it sends?
>>
>> Why can't you unzip it?
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Meehan
>>
>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>
>>
>>
>> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
>>> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but
>>> here goes:
>>> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via
>>> Outlook and using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip
>>> file that I cannot use.
>>>
>>> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the
>>> situation?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:#Wcc7W6gIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
> get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
> really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
> appropriate.
>
Thanks for the information. I am still a couple of versions back so I
was not aware of the change.
In article <6E7C9621-0384-46E6-9BAC-7535A57F93C9@microsoft.com>, Kathy wrote:
> No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word 2007
> files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed with a .docx
> extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip extension. When you
> unzip them, they don't display as Word documents but produce of what I think
> are the XML files.
Rename them; change the .ZIP extension to .DOCX
That should be all it takes.
>
> "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
>
> > Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program be set
> > to zip all files it sends?
> >
> > Why can't you unzip it?
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Meehan
> >
> > Dia 's Muire duit
> >
> >
> >
> > "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> > > I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but here
> > > goes:
> > > Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via Outlook and
> > > using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip file that I cannot
> > > use.
> > >
> > > Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the situation?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
> The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
> get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
> really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
> appropriate.
>
> The probable cause of the problem is that many web and mail servers still
> haven't been updated with MIME types for the new formats -- even though
> "new" now means "released more than a year ago". The problem is on the
> server's end, not yours.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> Kathy wrote:
> > No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word
> > 2007 files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed
> > with a .docx extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip
> > extension. When you unzip them, they don't display as Word documents
> > but produce of what I think are the XML files.
> >
> >
> > "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> >
> >> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program
> >> be set to zip all files it sends?
> >>
> >> Why can't you unzip it?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joseph Meehan
> >>
> >> Dia 's Muire duit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> >>> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but
> >>> here goes:
> >>> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via
> >>> Outlook and using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip
> >>> file that I cannot use.
> >>>
> >>> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the
> >>> situation?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
I'm having a same "problem" and i noticed one little thing.
I have two totally similar workstations with same office version and with
same service pack level.
So I'm downloading the same docx-file from same server and what is the result?
Well other workstation will open docx with word but the other one wants to
open that file with winzip. Both of workstations are using MIME-handling. If
i change iexplorer.exe MIME Handling value (from 1 to 0) in the registry
(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_HANDLING \)
then it will works with that other one too.
So do you have any ideas for this one?
Thanks,
Tommi
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
> The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
> get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
> really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
> appropriate.
>
> The probable cause of the problem is that many web and mail servers still
> haven't been updated with MIME types for the new formats -- even though
> "new" now means "released more than a year ago". The problem is on the
> server's end, not yours.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> Kathy wrote:
> > No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word
> > 2007 files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed
> > with a .docx extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip
> > extension. When you unzip them, they don't display as Word documents
> > but produce of what I think are the XML files.
> >
> >
> > "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> >
> >> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program
> >> be set to zip all files it sends?
> >>
> >> Why can't you unzip it?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joseph Meehan
> >>
> >> Dia 's Muire duit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> >>> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but
> >>> here goes:
> >>> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via
> >>> Outlook and using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip
> >>> file that I cannot use.
> >>>
> >>> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the
> >>> situation?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
No, I don't "have any ideas". I suppose you've read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib....85).aspx#mime
which contains everything I know about that feature (and don't particularly
understand much of what it says).
If you found something that works, do it.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:59:01 -0700, Tommi Sohlberg
<TommiSohlberg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hey Jay,
>
>I'm having a same "problem" and i noticed one little thing.
>I have two totally similar workstations with same office version and with
>same service pack level.
>
>So I'm downloading the same docx-file from same server and what is the result?
>Well other workstation will open docx with word but the other one wants to
>open that file with winzip. Both of workstations are using MIME-handling. If
>i change iexplorer.exe MIME Handling value (from 1 to 0) in the registry
>(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
>Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_HANDLIN G\)
>then it will works with that other one too.
>
>So do you have any ideas for this one?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tommi
>
>"Jay Freedman" wrote:
>
>> The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
>> get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
>> really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
>> appropriate.
>>
>> The probable cause of the problem is that many web and mail servers still
>> haven't been updated with MIME types for the new formats -- even though
>> "new" now means "released more than a year ago". The problem is on the
>> server's end, not yours.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
>> all may benefit.
>>
>> Kathy wrote:
>> > No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word
>> > 2007 files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed
>> > with a .docx extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip
>> > extension. When you unzip them, they don't display as Word documents
>> > but produce of what I think are the XML files.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program
>> >> be set to zip all files it sends?
>> >>
>> >> Why can't you unzip it?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Joseph Meehan
>> >>
>> >> Dia 's Muire duit
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
>> >>> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but
>> >>> here goes:
>> >>> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via
>> >>> Outlook and using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip
>> >>> file that I cannot use.
>> >>>
>> >>> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the
>> >>> situation?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
I'm not able to figure out that why some workstations opens those documents
very well before registeration...Maybe i don't need to know that.
thanks.
Tommi
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
> No, I don't "have any ideas". I suppose you've read
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib....85).aspx#mime
> which contains everything I know about that feature (and don't particularly
> understand much of what it says).
>
> If you found something that works, do it.
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:59:01 -0700, Tommi Sohlberg
> <TommiSohlberg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hey Jay,
> >
> >I'm having a same "problem" and i noticed one little thing.
> >I have two totally similar workstations with same office version and with
> >same service pack level.
> >
> >So I'm downloading the same docx-file from same server and what is the result?
> >Well other workstation will open docx with word but the other one wants to
> >open that file with winzip. Both of workstations are using MIME-handling. If
> >i change iexplorer.exe MIME Handling value (from 1 to 0) in the registry
> >(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
> >Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_HANDLIN G\)
> >then it will works with that other one too.
> >
> >So do you have any ideas for this one?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Tommi
> >
> >"Jay Freedman" wrote:
> >
> >> The new Office file formats really are zip files containing XML. When you
> >> get one whose extension has been changed to .zip (if you know it hasn't
> >> really been zipped), just rename it to .docx or .xlsx or .pptx as
> >> appropriate.
> >>
> >> The probable cause of the problem is that many web and mail servers still
> >> haven't been updated with MIME types for the new formats -- even though
> >> "new" now means "released more than a year ago". The problem is on the
> >> server's end, not yours.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Jay Freedman
> >> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> >> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> >> all may benefit.
> >>
> >> Kathy wrote:
> >> > No, the senders did not zip them. In one instance, I received 8 Word
> >> > 2007 files from 8 senders. In each message, the filename showed
> >> > with a .docx extension but 3 of them downloaded as files with a .zip
> >> > extension. When you unzip them, they don't display as Word documents
> >> > but produce of what I think are the XML files.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Joseph Meehan" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Do you know if the sender zipped it? Could their e-mail program
> >> >> be set to zip all files it sends?
> >> >>
> >> >> Why can't you unzip it?
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Joseph Meehan
> >> >>
> >> >> Dia 's Muire duit
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "Kathy" <Kathy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:90992F7D-4ACB-4A1D-9ED2-F4CEEEB24943@microsoft.com...
> >> >>> I don't know if this is the proper place to post this question but
> >> >>> here goes:
> >> >>> Sometimes when I download a Word 2007 .docx document sent via
> >> >>> Outlook and using Webmail, the .docx attachment downloads as a zip
> >> >>> file that I cannot use.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Any reason why this happens and what can I do to correct the
> >> >>> situation?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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