Sounds like its your antivirus software screwing things up. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"sosgemini" <sosgemini@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Okay...just bought a new laptop (vista business) and can't send a word or
> excel document as an attachment. The email icon is shaded out and won't
> allow
> me to select it. Same when I use the menu option tabs.
>
> I've already set Windows Mail as my default. Are there any other tips for
> getting this to work?