How can I open a blocked attachment?

E

Eldoylio

Im using Outlook 2003 and I cannot open an Excel file that has been sent to
me. I cannot find anything in the help files about turning this extra
security off!

I know that the file is not contaminated with a virus and I have managed to
turn this feature off before but I cannot find out how to do it now!

Please help me!
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

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After furious head scratching, Eldoylio asked:

| Im using Outlook 2003 and I cannot open an Excel file that has been
| sent to me. I cannot find anything in the help files about turning
| this extra security off!
|
| I know that the file is not contaminated with a virus and I have
| managed to turn this feature off before but I cannot find out how to
| do it now!
|
| Please help me!
 
M

Mary

Change your Security settings in Outlook by going to
Tools>Options>Security>Auto Download settings.
 
V

Vanguardx

Eldoylio said:
Im using Outlook 2003 and I cannot open an Excel file that has been
sent to me. I cannot find anything in the help files about turning
this extra security off!

I know that the file is not contaminated with a virus and I have
managed to turn this feature off before but I cannot find out how to
do it now!

Please help me!
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http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

There's a link to the Attachment Options utility. Or you can search
Microsoft's KB support site (http://support.microsoft.com) on
"Level1Remove" to get the registry hack. However, once the particular
file extension has been allowed will not magically make the attachment
available from old e-mails. Those got marked as hazardous attachments
and Outlook won't let you access them thereafter. You could use
DBxtract to extract the message to see if you could modify it to readd
back into Outlook to then extract the attachment. Or just have the
sender resend their message with the attachment. However, senders
shouldn't be sending you .xls or other Excel files using their standard
extensions. Have the sender zip up the file into a .zip file
attachment. Or, have them simply rename the file, attach it, you
extract it, and then rename it back, like they send you somefile.exx
which you rename on the save to somefile.exe. The so-called file
security provided in Outlook is based merely on extensions, so just use
an extension that it won't bitch about.
 
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