At that point, if you have the software in which it was created, you can double click on the attachment and that piece of software will start up with that file being displayed. If you don t have the software, you can right click on the attachment and then select View from the popup menu. At that point, you should be able to click on the printer icon and print out the document or save it as a file. If the name that appears underneath the icon ends with a .exe extension, and the person who sent you the message has told you about the attachment, double clicking on it should start up a small program. If double clicking doesn t work, right click and then select Open from the popup menu.
Attachments are the only way that viruses can be spread through an email message.
Double clicking on an unknown attachment could result in your PC being infected. One way of having that information is to include the filename at the bottom of the page of your document. If you have already saved your file, WordPerfect 6.1 has the ability to quickly insert the name of your file with a few clicks of the mouse. By clicking on that, the footer area will be closed and clicking on that will return you to your document. Now when you print your document, you ll be able to refer to the information at the very bottom of the page to find the filename and make retrieving the document very, very easy.