I am trying to open an email attachment.. adobe reader says it can't do it..

[Slouchy]

..cos the file is damaged or incorrectly decoded. Does my friend need to send the email again or am I stuck with this not working even of she does? Or is there a way round it?
Ta

oh lapin you love. I will check. hang on..

adobe reader cannot open this doc either because it is not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged e.g. it was sent as an email attachment and has not been correctly decoded.

I have windows Vista so I'd be surprised if it doesn't support the file.

can you save it onto your pc and then open the progam and open the file then? rather than double clicking?

Tried that, popmum.Same message.

Hmm, don't know if it is def a pdf.
(Ama abit shite on comp's me. I guess its a Word doc, more than that I can't say)

after the dot it says doc, lapin, but my comp seems desperate to open it via adobe.

Gotta do school run and pop out after for a while so will check out any further help later tonight.
Ta for help

OK so now I've got a msg works was unable to open the project you selected. the file may be corrupted
am I desperately inept?

Try re-saving tyhe attachment onto your desktop and then opening with word again

Thanks, sheik but still no go.

I'm sure Works XP was easier than Vista!

I started getting this same problem when I upgraded to Vista. The version of works that came with it won't read .doc Word files. It tries to open them with Adobe Acrobat instead but can't.Sometimes I could manually get it to open with Works but I have now downloaded Word Viewer(free) to open any .doc files with

Ah ha. That may be the way forward. Thanks to all.

word Viewer

Yeah, I know Lapin. I'm not at all confident with works, word I had sorted.
Shite.
Will plod on - thanks for the links guys..

REally? You'd do that for me? REALLY?

Cor you are as nice as they say.

Maybe I will later on if still no joy.

(I feel a prat now, cos its only the definitive camping holiday checklist

Or you could download free software (openOffice) which will open it.

All you need for camping is

gin
tonic
gin
lemon
gin
ice
tent
gin
gin

lol