Vista - Unable to open a .doc

Hi

I've been trying to open a file from the NHS public website which ends .doc
(says the type is doc_auto_file) without success.

When I click to open or save a message comes up saying "Internet Explorer
wants to open web content - NAME - Windows Wordpad Application / Publisher -
Microsoft Windows" & get to choice to allow or not allow. When I click on
"allow" all that comes up in the document is a random selection of
letters/numbers/symbols.

Can anyone please advise on a way round this on vista (without resulting to
getting rid of it!!) - I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 already installed on
my computer as thought that would enable to open these documents.

Hope someone can help

"schumbley@btopenworld.com"
<schumbleybtopenworldcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I've been trying to open a file from the NHS public website which ends
> .doc
> (says the type is doc_auto_file) without success.
>
> When I click to open or save a message comes up saying "Internet Explorer
> wants to open web content - NAME - Windows Wordpad Application /
> Publisher -
> Microsoft Windows" & get to choice to allow or not allow. When I click on
> "allow" all that comes up in the document is a random selection of
> letters/numbers/symbols.
>
> Can anyone please advise on a way round this on vista (without resulting
> to
> getting rid of it!!) - I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 already installed
> on
> my computer as thought that would enable to open these documents.
>
> Hope someone can help

What's the URL to the document? I'll have a look.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Paul - think I've sorted it - seems it was to do with "compatability" of
documents - thanks for the offer of help though - much appreciated.

"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "schumbley@btopenworld.com"
> <schumbleybtopenworldcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B29D9C77-6236-4863-8019-476731335303@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I've been trying to open a file from the NHS public website which ends
> > .doc
> > (says the type is doc_auto_file) without success.
> >
> > When I click to open or save a message comes up saying "Internet Explorer
> > wants to open web content - NAME - Windows Wordpad Application /
> > Publisher -
> > Microsoft Windows" & get to choice to allow or not allow. When I click on
> > "allow" all that comes up in the document is a random selection of
> > letters/numbers/symbols.
> >
> > Can anyone please advise on a way round this on vista (without resulting
> > to
> > getting rid of it!!) - I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 already installed
> > on
> > my computer as thought that would enable to open these documents.
> >
> > Hope someone can help
>
> What's the URL to the document? I'll have a look.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>

"schumbley@newsgroup" wrote:

How was you able to get the page to read in english instead of all the symbols?

"schumbley@newsgroup" wrote: