Attachment displays as "not a valid web archive"

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Aloha_girl

i use OE v 6, Office XP, IE v 6........some of my email attachments (forwarded ones) appear as grayed out powerpoint icon..when i try to open them, powerpoint opens, then i get the error message "not a valid web archive"...the attachment shows with extension ".email", not ".pps" or ".ppt".....how do i get these attachments to open???
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

What program is it trying to open them in and what type of attachment are
they supposed to be?

If word documents, in Word go to Tools/Options and on the General tab turn
on "Confirm
conversion at Open"...
 
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