Sending Word Doc. as attachments

G

Guest

When I try to send a Word Doc as an attachment the other person receives the
attachment as an *.DAT file. Why is this hapenning?
 
L

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

jdawg56 said:
When I try to send a Word Doc as an attachment the other person
receives the attachment as an *.DAT file. Why is this hapenning?
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Sounds like you're using Rich Text as your message format. Change it to HTML
or plain text.
 
B

Brian Tillman

jdawg56 said:
When I try to send a Word Doc as an attachment the other person
receives the attachment as an *.DAT file. Why is this hapenning?
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Because you're sending the message in Rich Text format, which mail clients
other than Outlook can't read.
 
G

Guest

I am using plain text format but still when I send a Word.doc attachment my
attachment is sending a garbbled message.
 
G

Guest

I am sending my attachments as a word.doc and I have my Outlook formatted to
use plain text, but my attachments are garbbled junk.

Vicki
 

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