Re: Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?

Sample double-extension filename:

"ClassReunion.doc
..exe"

What shows up under attachments is "ClassReunion.doc" because the real
extension is off the screen. When you put it in Windows, it will give you an
exe icon rather than a Word icon and you may actually see the whole name if
you simply click on the file.
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Charles Kenyon

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"PJF" <pjfnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Again, thanks Charles. So far I haven't run into the double filename
extension since I always deleted the message with an attachment that
looked
the least bit suspicious. Thanks for the reminder!

PJF


"Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The two big reasons are malware, which may or may not escape your virus
scan, and that it is very easy to lose things opened directly from an
email.

One gimmic that creators of malware have been known to use is double
filename extensions so that something looks like a document file in an
email
attachment but is really a vbscript or an exe file. When these are saved
to
a hard drive, their true nature becomes a bit more obvious.

I believe there are other reasons, those two are enough for me, though.
No,
I can't point you to a web page.
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"PJF" <pjfnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I
described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not
opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a
practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with
my
AV
program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire
message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then
opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that
might provide that info, I'd be most grateful.

Kindest regards,

PJF


"Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without
opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits.
Then
send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons
to
not open attachments directly from email.
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Charles Kenyon

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"PJF" <pjfnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who
received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited
document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the
attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited
attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I
opened
the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that
he
had
sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not
been
saved.

Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it
including
the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening
the
original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when
returning
the edited document attach it to a reply email message?

Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

PJF













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