Why does a docx file in an email attachment download as an ashx file?
My daugher has some sort of web-based email from school--I believe it's the "cloud" version of Outlook. Whatever.
When she has an attachment that she had been sent that was a Word 2007 document--that attachment gets saved to the Windows 7 machine's Download directory as an .ashx file.
Double-clicking opens it up in Visual Studio in binary form, and I see the first two bytes are "PK"...which I remember from back in the day as a zip header. So I renamed the extension to .zip and it opened fine in Winzip showing a bunch of .xml files. The word doc's contents are in the xml files but it's in that raw xml without any stylesheet affecting it.
I just want a damn Word document not some run-around from Microsoft because it's "the cloud" or some bs about security.
How can I open this thing in Word 2007 where it was created and not have to be a friggin' programmer to get my daughter to do her homework?
Thanks,
James
When she has an attachment that she had been sent that was a Word 2007 document--that attachment gets saved to the Windows 7 machine's Download directory as an .ashx file.
Double-clicking opens it up in Visual Studio in binary form, and I see the first two bytes are "PK"...which I remember from back in the day as a zip header. So I renamed the extension to .zip and it opened fine in Winzip showing a bunch of .xml files. The word doc's contents are in the xml files but it's in that raw xml without any stylesheet affecting it.
I just want a damn Word document not some run-around from Microsoft because it's "the cloud" or some bs about security.
How can I open this thing in Word 2007 where it was created and not have to be a friggin' programmer to get my daughter to do her homework?
Thanks,
James
Hi!
Since Microsoft is using different platforms on microsoft applications, we need to chose "All File Types' in the file opening dialog and it will open. Since it is a microsoft document, it can be easily managed within Microsoft Operating system.
If you do that all the files can be opened without any problem.
Since Microsoft is using different platforms on microsoft applications, we need to chose "All File Types' in the file opening dialog and it will open. Since it is a microsoft document, it can be easily managed within Microsoft Operating system.
If you do that all the files can be opened without any problem.
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Thanks very much!
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So I'll revise the question:
Why?
Why the hassle? Why double-clicking Microsoft's own OS can't figure out it's own doc format done by it's own applications?
Thanks,