Can't open Word documents from Macmail

I use MS Office since I am in publishing and have never had this problem before. But about 50% of the time, I can't open .docx documents that are sent to me by email. Again, this is only some .docx documents. Any ideas on why this might be happening?
Also, it gives me an error message saying that there is not enough disk space to convert this document, but I have about 175GB available.
Message was edited by: Idea Architect

Try http://www.neooffice.org/ instead of Microsoft Word.
As for disk space, see my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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