Word Document will not open from email attachment

[MSFT]

I had installed Microsoft Office Pro 2003 on Windows XP. I had received some files in email. When I click on them to open directly I am facing a problem with that. It is not working fine. After clicking on the attachment nothing happens. The same work well when I open it by saving the file somewhere. There is no error message at all after clicking on the attachment. I think Word must open automatically as I click to open a doc file.

[Chitesh]

It looks problem with file association. You have to modify program access and defaults to ensure that your system is able to identify the application. You can go in control panel and then click on Program access defaults. Click on that and then configure the program as per the file extension. Then check again. That would be working well I think.

[mldennista]

I am having a problem with this but it is XP SP3 Office 2007. Word documents will only open if I have them saved on my hd and use file open from word. Will not open when opening attachments in Outlook.