There are 2 things I can think of to try. First try control clicking and try quick look after which you might be able to save it out as whatever you want. Another option is to try control clicking and then open with. When opening these files with TextEdit, there may be jibberish at the top and bottom of the page that you might have to erase out. Hope this helps and maybe others have ideas too.
Egun. On, Lagunak! (Basque for "G' day,Mates"), Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda Http://www.Facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda On May 14, 2011, at 4:27 PM, "Dawn Benbow " <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got my new MacBook Pro a week and a half ago. I started college last > week and am still working on learning my new Mac. > > Right now I'm having a problem. A serious one right now. .doc or .docx word > files are showing up as .dat documents when sent to my email as attatchments. > I can't open and view them. Since these are college documents this is a > problem! What do I need to do to fix this? I need to open these documents. > > > > Dawn, > MSN and email: [email protected] > Yahoo messenger: [email protected] > Skype: d.benbow > twitter: @DawnAndBaskin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
