Opening MS attachments in Mail with Parallels installed

Here's the situation that's happening with a friend that I need some help with. She's running OS X Leopard and Windows XP with Parallels. She has MS Office for both platforms. She uses Mail in OS X as her email application. When she receives attachments in email - i.e. Word document, Excel spreadsheet - it automatically opens in Windows (through Parallels) rather than opening in Word or Excel for Mac. Is there a setting she's overlooked that would make the default application Office for Mac rather than Windows XP?
Thanks in advance for any help offered!

This is happening because the documents she is receiving probably were created originally using the Windows version of Office. Have her select a document then press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Open With section select the Mac version of the Office application (Word, Excel, etc. depending upon the document) from the drop down menu then click on the Change All button. This should now associate all such documents with the Office application. She will need to do this for a Word, Excel, and PPT document, respectively.
Alternatively, download the freeware utility RCDefaultApp and install it. Then these associations can be handled for all types of documents, MIME types, etc. You will find it at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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