I sent a email message from my laptop with a .docx attachment via Outlook 2007 and also sent a separate email message with a .pdf attachment to my recently purchased desktop computer with Windows Live Mail. The attachment icon does not show up for the Word attachment. But the icon appears for the pdf file.  I forwarded the message with the Word file as an attachment back to my laptop. Lo and behold, this forwarded message had the Word attachment in the attachment! What is going on? I tried several more times to send the message with the attachment and the icon never shows up! The header does not indicate an attachment, therefore there is no way I can open it...I think I need to dump this Windows Live and buy Outlook 2013. Or....???

The message is sent HTML format. The doc extension is associated with Word on my desktop. Conversation is turned off.

Thanks