Finally was able to get a second and try your suggestion and it didn't help.
I even uninstalled Nortons...and nada.

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> 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
> news:6339D495-02F8-4BCF-8603-115B0E564335@microsoft.com...
> > 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?
>
>