Can't open Office attachments bet mac and pc (note my alias)?

I often e-mail myself Word attachments from my work pc to my home mac (to edit in the evenings), and then e-mail the attachment back to myself to open the next day at work. This used to work seamlessly. It doesn't anymore. (The .doc extension is included.)
Instead, I get a "File conversion" dialog box asking me to "Select the encoding that makes your document readable." The three choices are Windows, MS-DOS and Other encoding:. The "other" then has a scroll menu with a bunch of languages, from Arabic to Western European (DOS, ISO, Mac, Windows).
What's Up? Any way around this? BTW, I've been avoiding the whole bootcamp/parallels world out of philosophical/paranoid principles about maintaining the Windows-free integrity of my new MacBook...

Welcome to the discussions!
The fact that it worked, but it doesn't anymore means something has happened to interrupt this procedure.Remember if there was an update or something done that will explain it. As for the workaround I always saved as .RTF to avoid such troubles and it hasn't (yet) failed me.

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