Opening email attachments created by microsoft

first week with ibook going smooth but minor problem can't open email attachments created by microsoft word or excel, any suggestions would help

camryn,
Since your iBook is new you may have a trial version of Pages and Office 2004. It may have also come with AppleWorks.
Look in your Applications folder.
If you have any of these programs control click on the attachment and >open with, Navigate to said program.
Pages does agood job of opening Word files, AppleWorks is IMHO not so good. I'm not sure about the Excel files, maybe someone else can offer more on that.
You can go here to check other alterntives:
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=office &plt%5B%5D=macosx&x=0&y=0
Hope this helps.
20" iMac G5 rev.B, 250GbHD, 2GbRam Mac OS X (10.4.3)
20" iMac G5 rev.B, 250GbHD, 2GbRam Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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