Word document titles

[BuckeyeOne]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

When I download and open a Word document from my internet email account, Word documents open with a generic "Document 1" title instead of the actual name of the document as sent to me. If I open a document that was saved to my desktop, it opens with its actual title name.

 

[John McGhie]

It's a seriously bad idea to open anything from within your email. You
short-circuit the system protection and risk getting taken out by Internet
Nasties.

It sounds as though the file you are downloading is a Template (a file of
type .dot or .dotx).

If it is, and you "open" it in Word 2008, it will create a new document
"based on" the template. That's the correct behaviour, and fixes a bug in
Word 2004 where Word would "open" templates instead of creating a new
document from one.

Either way, if you save the file to your templates folder and double-click
it or use Project Gallery, you will get a new document. You need to assign
your own file name.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

When I download and open a Word document from my internet email account, Word
documents open with a generic "Document 1" title instead of the actual name of
the document as sent to me. If I open a document that was saved to my desktop,
it opens with its actual title name.

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[BuckeyeOne]

Thanks. I noticed last night that these documents are saving to the desktop with .dot as a suffix, even though the original document have .doc suffices. Is there something happening to add the template format?

The problem with the new document title is that these are usually work document being sent to multiple users and we need to be able to track the document by title. The process you identify requires me to save the document with the original title or slight modification. While I can do this, it's pretty inefficient.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Are you using Safari to access a webmail account, and downloading the
documents that way? if so, this is a bug in Safari (I think) that adds
..dot to the end of downloaded Word files. Just find the file in Finder
and delete the .dot from the end of the filename before using the document.

MS and Apple are working on getting the issue fixed.

 

[BuckeyeOne]

I am using Safari to access a webmail account and downloading that way. When I read your post, I tried downloading the same Word document using Camino/Mozilla and it worked just fine, i.e., Camino didn't add the .dot to the end of the document. Thanks so much. I'll look forward to the fix.

 

[BuckeyeOne]

Noticed today that the same error (i.e., the addition of .dot) to Word documents accessed via a webmail account does not occur with Word 2008 documents with the .docx suffix.