>I installed Outlook in Office/XP in order to migrate from Outlook Express.
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>It is working pretty well except for one major problem: when viewing an incoming email, I can't open any attachments at all, even JPEG or PDF files. I can't view them or even copy them to disk.
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>The Help file states that some file types are blocked unconditionally and can't be unblocked, but it doesn't state that a PDF or a JPEG is a blocked type.
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>Is there any way to view attachment types that are not specified as blocked types? Or is this a problem with this version of Outlook? If necessary, I could obtain and install a newer version of Office.
When you try to open an attachment, do you get a message or error?
Maybe
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/829982/-outlook-blocked-access-to-the-following-potentially-unsafe-attachments-message-in-outlook ?
Regards. Al
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