MS Word XP - merging documents

Before I get into my Word problem.....

What does "not cookied" mean ??


I recently sent a document to a friend who said the document
would not open.

So, I tried to repeat the operation by sending the document to my self.

When I opened the attachment using Outlook - the message popped up asking me if I want to merge this document xzy.doc with my documents/settings... etc. xzy.doc.

Since xzy.doc is only 1 document and resides in "my documents" I could not figure out why MS Word was asking me to merge the same document and where was this other xzy.doc ??

After some difficulty being a detective, I finally figured out that the 1 document that was apparently opened from Outlook as an attachment was opening in the temporary internet files/ OLK1.

I never put this xzy.doc into OLK1 - so I have no clue how it got there.

I re-named and changed the document so that it would only open in My Documents, and it kept opening in OLK1 again and again.

I am stumped re: how to solve this problem

Thanks for any help....

 

Mine says OLK5 but same thing. Thats the folder where attachments are placed when the arrive. They don't really stay "attached" to the email itself.

But the fact your system wants to merge the two copies of the document is interesting. I just tried it and mine wanted to do the same thing except it specifically asked about merging changes back into the original document and the options were "Yes ", "No ", "No - and don't ask again ". Choosing that last one evidently broke what ever link there was between original doc and email attachment but I also had to save "changes" to the attached copy so it probably noticed the broken link as a change.

 

MS Word document merging

Thanks, Newt, for your help.


Should we be purging the OLK folder on a regular basis?



What does "not cookied" mean ?



I do appreciate your input

 

"Not Cookied?" is an expression you will usually see on vBulletin based forums like this one.

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