The short answer is...nothing should happen to your Word documents when you uninstall Word. They should still be there when you reinstall Word or another word processor capable of reading/writing Word .doc files. Even if you do nothing other than an uninstall of Word, they should still be usable if you open them with Wordpad...though you will have fewer tools with which to modify them than you have with Word.

I have word 2010 there are 2 or 3 ways to paste. The first one just pastes, the third pastes without the formatting so you can edit it and not sure what the second is. Check and see if your word has that feature. This post was edited by EmmaR on Sun, Jun 23, 13 at 13:10

I think I solved my own problem. I went back to Microsoft Word, and pushed open. Then I can change or add.

The plural of guru is gurus. I'm not one. Normally doc file settings are file specific, and one would open with whatever settings its creator gave it, but maybe the email system is doing something to it as it opens. Try saving the document first. Then open it from the folder it lands in. What happens?