Windows 10: win 10 word 2010 email as attachment

Hello
I cannot send a word doc when I click on Save and send.
I have a MS account (Outlook.com)=pr.... @Live.com, a Gmail and a Comcast account.
I selected M.S. "Mail" as my default client as none of the others appear under default.
I used to use WLM but they are phasing Essentials out.

Do you know how to fix this?

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Outlook 2013 opens Word attachments in Word 2013 despite Word 2010 being preferred version - Windows 10 suspected as cause

Thank you for the response. I will continue following that thread.

I have not posted in the Word forum because I have no problem using Word. The problem arises from the interactions of Outlook 2013, Windows 10, and multiple versions of Word. When Outlook is not involved (i.e. the Word document is an attachment to an email),
or when Windows 10 is not involved, there is no problem. Documents and templates both use Word 2010. When Outlook 2013 is involved on Windows 10, attachments open in Word 2013.

I speculated that Outlook may be treating the attachment as an OLE object.

 

Outlook 2013 opens Word attachments in Word 2013 despite Word 2010 being preferred version - Windows 10 suspected as cause

First, this is a question first posted in the Outlook forum. It has been cross-posted at

this thread and
this one. No satisfactory answer has come up, I suspect that it is because this is a side-effect of Win 10 rather than Outlook or Word settings.

Originally posted in Outlook forum on November 25, 2015:

I have multiple versions of Office on my computer but use the latest version of Outlook (2013) that I have.

When I double-click on a Word document in Windows it opens in Word 2010, which is my preferred version. However, if I open a Word document that is an email attachment directly, it opens in Word 2013.

Is there any setting I can change to get attachments to open in Word 2010.

BTW, I do know that it is not a good idea to open and edit Word documents directly from email. I generally open them and if I want to edit, I save the document to a permanent storage location.

Note, this is a recent behavior (within the last couple of days). Before that attachments opened in Word 2010.

Additional information: This was not a problem for more than two years under Windows 8.1. This is true of all forms of Word files.

I also tried a command line re-registration, following my own directions from:

My docs open in the wrong program! Re-registering Word using the commandline.

Here is a screenshot from a message showing the .docx attachments with Word 2013 icons.





Here is a screenshot of such an attachment's icon when downloaded/saved to the Desktop using SaveAs. That document also showed a Word 2013 icon as the attachment.





Note that it is the Word 2010 icon.

When a document is opened from a file saved to the computer it opens in Word 2010. When the same document is opened directly from the email, it opens in Word 2013. This happens whether or not Word 2010 or Word 2013 are already open. AFAIK this only happens
when the email is opened in Outlook 2013.

Again, this is a relatively recent development. I have been using Outlook (and Word) 2013 for more than two years previously without this anomaly. Word 2010 was and remains the default application for Word documents, except when they are opened directly
from Outlook.

Word 2013 is currently not the default app for any file type.

 

I run into that problem with a few of my clients and the only solution for them was to get Microsoft Outlook so as to properly interface with Word and Excel. It's mostly the difference between using Webmail/Online E-Mail versus an installed E-Mail Client/Program. If a client doesn't want to buy Outlook or upgrade their version of Office to one that includes Outlook I advise to Save the document in the Documents/My Documents Folder, open their Browser to their Webmail page, create the message then Attach the file they created and Send.

 

If I got an email client like Thunderbird etc would that work? One you downloaded to the PC. I used to have WLM.
I thought MS's MAIL as default would do it b/c it seems to be installed, not web based.

I have a MS account p..... @Live.com but I guess that is web based.

Is what I need a non web based email client?