Carl and Ricky,
I can't open Rickys or bOb's files. Carl, I don't get "extract" with a right click. What I get every time with Rickys or bObs is ..."unable to load graphics conversion filter." I also downloaded the winzip file to no avail.
Gary Ball
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Ricky Davis
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Gary it sounds to me like your trying to extract or open the zip file in your email???
That's the only way I can see you would get that messege because that is your email program that is not recognizing the zip.
Here is the proper way.
When you get an attachement in a email and click to open the attachement; you'll get a box that says "Open file" or "Save file to disk"??(I'm pretty sure that's standard).
So you should select "SAVE" especially for zip files....>and then you choose where to save it...but if your not up on where you like all your different files to go...>just choose "Save to Desktop".
Than after the file attachment is on your desktop as an icon...>if you have XP than right click the icon and you'll have extract there....or if you did get winzip>the Icon will be a winzip Icon..and just double click it and go from there.
Hope that works...>Oh and my files are Word documents...so you should either have Microsoft Word or Word Viewer; in order to see the files.
Ricky<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ricky Davis on 29 November 2003 at 09:40 PM.]</p></FONT>
That's the only way I can see you would get that messege because that is your email program that is not recognizing the zip.
Here is the proper way.
When you get an attachement in a email and click to open the attachement; you'll get a box that says "Open file" or "Save file to disk"??(I'm pretty sure that's standard).
So you should select "SAVE" especially for zip files....>and then you choose where to save it...but if your not up on where you like all your different files to go...>just choose "Save to Desktop".
Than after the file attachment is on your desktop as an icon...>if you have XP than right click the icon and you'll have extract there....or if you did get winzip>the Icon will be a winzip Icon..and just double click it and go from there.
Hope that works...>Oh and my files are Word documents...so you should either have Microsoft Word or Word Viewer; in order to see the files.
Ricky<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ricky Davis on 29 November 2003 at 09:40 PM.]</p></FONT>
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C Dixon
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I agree totally with Ricky, I have done this many many times.
I will tell you something however that does happen. I have received some attachments where it has files attached that have extensions like .txt. If this is the case I can't open these files since my XP came with "word perfect" and it cannot read files created with word or other similar word processors.
carl
I will tell you something however that does happen. I have received some attachments where it has files attached that have extensions like .txt. If this is the case I can't open these files since my XP came with "word perfect" and it cannot read files created with word or other similar word processors.
carl
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Graham
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Gary Ball
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OK, finally got it figured out. Right clicked on the document and there is "Open" which didn't work, on down is my Winzip which doesn't open it either. So I'm sitting there (or here) and saw a 3rd item that says "open with." Hit it and up comes "Word Pad," or "Word Perfect l0." Word Pad was what it was defaulting to and didn't work. I switched to Word Perfect l0 and there you are Ricky. Thanks for your help. Now if I could just find the file I put bOb's xmas music in...oh well.