Can anyone advise why a .xls spreadsheet, when sent as an attachment in an
Outlook email, arrives at one destination in a .dat format (and they cannot
open this) while it arrives at another location when sent exactly the same
way as a .xls spreadsheet? This sometimes happens when sending a Word .doc
as an attachment as well.

Lewis Shanks

Lewis

Try sending in "Plain Text" format to all receivers.

Some email clients do not handle RTF.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:02:07 -0700, "Lewis Shanks"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Can anyone advise why a .xls spreadsheet, when sent as an attachment in an
>Outlook email, arrives at one destination in a .dat format (and they cannot
>open this) while it arrives at another location when sent exactly the same
>way as a .xls spreadsheet? This sometimes happens when sending a Word .doc
>as an attachment as well.
>
>Lewis Shanks
>