Windows Live Mail 2012 Word attachment will not open

When I try to open a Word attachment in Windows Live Mail 2012 I get the following message. 

"Word experienced an error trying to open the file". 

"Try these suggestions 

• check the file permission for the document or drive 
• Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space
• Open the file with Text recovery converter" 

How do I fix this that I can open my word documents in my email without saving them on to my hard drive. 

FYI when I recently tried opening a document I clicked on "always use this when trying to open this kind of file" 

Thanks

[Moved from Windows 7]