I am using Microsoft Outlook 2000 OS Windows 2000

When i send an attachment with an e-mail, my colleauges recieve them as .dat
files.
If i send them a pdf, or excel or word document they are all recived as
..dat. This has only just started happening

Thanks in advance

"Peter C" wrote...

I am using Microsoft Outlook 2000 OS Windows 2000

When i send an attachment with an e-mail, my colleauges recieve them as
.dat
files.
If i send them a pdf, or excel or word document they are all recived as
.dat. This has only just started happening

Thanks in advance

What are your email sending options? If you're sending email in RTF
(Microsoft's Rich Text Format), you may have folks saying they're getting
winmail.dat files that they can't open. The fix is for you to change from
RTF to something else like plain text, html or whatever else Outlook 2000
offers.

Craig

"Peter C" wrote in message
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I am using Microsoft Outlook 2000 OS Windows 2000

When i send an attachment with an e-mail, my colleauges recieve them as
.dat
files.
If i send them a pdf, or excel or word document they are all recived as
.dat. This has only just started happening

Thanks in advance




If the mail was sent from Outlook using Outlook's RTF format then Outlook
Express will never find the attachment. Outlook Express does not understand
Outlook's RTF format. Ask the Outlook user to please use Plain Text,
especially when sending attachments.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM
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