Recipients cannot open email attachments

[Free Office software]

Thats because they dont have Word on their machine...here
is FREE office software http://www.openoffice.org
>-----Original Message-----
> I'm running Microsoft's XPHome edition. When i send an
>email with an attachment(word works), the recipient is
>getting a message saying that thee file is not recognised
>and they cannot open it. Please help
>.
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