On 16/9/06 16:08, "Glenn Heilemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I write a document in Microsoft Word on my Mac and email it as an attachment > to someone that has a PC with Word on their computer. The document ends up > on their computer with the extension of ".dat" without the parenthesis. When > they attempt to open the attachment, it comes out all garbled. However, if > they go to the document and change the .dat extension to a .doc extension, > it opens fine. By the way the original extension was .doc, but it got > changed while being sent. Obviously, you don't want to tell your > recepient(s) to change the extension of an attachment just because you sent > it from a Mac. > Make sure your preferences are set to 'appledouble' for the encoding of attachments. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting <http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
