[kdepim-users] attachments in KMail

[Art Alexion]

On Monday 09 November 2009 06:44:44 pm Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> 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?

> 
> 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
> 

I am thinking this has nothing to do with kmail, but rather something inherent 
in kword or in the way your kde is configured to handle running programs with 
specific documents.

If you navigate to the file in konqueror and try to launch the file in kword 
from there, do you get the same blank page, or is the problem unique to kmail 
attachments?

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