Re: attachments in KMail

Bruce MacArthur <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 09 November 2009 05:40:17 pm Louis Hinman wrote:
> I am running KMail 1.9.10 in KDE 3.5.10 (both standard in Slackware 
12.2).  
> 
> Although I can open MS Word documents in KWord, I don't seem to be 
able to 
> open them as attachments to email in KMail.  (When I right-click on 
> attachment.doc and Open With...>Office>KWord, KWord opens with a blank 
page.) 
> 
> I will upgrade to Slackware 13.0 soon (which will incorporates KDE 
4.5.4).  In 
> the meantime, is the failure to open Word attachments a known bug?  Is 
there 
> a work-around?
> 
> Thanks & Best Regards,
> 
> Louis Hinman
> New York City
> 
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Hello, Louis --

I do NOT know Slackware -- so I offer no direct comments.  I have opened 
MANY MS-Word documents, received as attachments in K-Mail, into 
OpenOffice.org -- Write.  The documents were prepared under MS-Office for 
Mac -- but have never given me any problems when handled this way.  You 
can download OpenOffice.org (even a Win-Doze edition!) for free -- and i 
might suggest that you do this if it isn't part of the Slackware distro 
yet.  I hope this is helpful, even though it is not a direct answer!


Bruce   Mac Arthur
     [email protected]
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