attachments sent as .dat files

[Ian Dixon]

I have Office 2000 Professional on a laptop running
Windows XP Professional.

I am connected to a LAN and whenever I send an attachment
such as a Word or Excel file to an external address, all
they receive is a .dat file which they cannot open.

If I send the same file to the same address using another
destop PC (running Windows 2000) on the same network,
attachments are sent and received correctly.

Can anyone help?
Thanks,
ID

 

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