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by neal1lb

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sending an attached excel spreadsheet to people not using outlook.. they receive
the attachment renamed as a .dat file and
cannot open the attachment. Have tried
sending to various other email programs
without success with the exception of
other outlook2000 users.
any ideas
thanks a lot

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by dmiles

The file in question is WINMAIL.DAT-used to preserve formatting by sending client,but is not recognized by receiving client using email other than Outlook,WINMAIL.DAT files use Rich Text Format restrictions
To avoid including WINMAIL.DAT,use the plain text mail format,To select Plain Text
1.Choose Options from the Tools menu to open the Options dialog box
2.Click Mail Format tab
3.Select Plain Text from the Send In This Message Format box
Reference KB articleQ149203 and Q138053 for mor info on WINMAIL.DAT

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