download window says FIND instead of OPEN

When using IE8 and downloading an MSWORD attachment from email, I get a download window thta gives me the option to FIND (i.e. to search the internet to find a program that will open this document) or to SAVE it. The options used to be OPEN and SAVE, but something happened so that I no longer have the option to OPEN. Clicking on OPEN would auotmatically bring up OFFICE WORD to open the document, but I can nolonger do that.

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