Hi Bob,

this does not look like Excel , but more like Outlook (mail client) problem.
Try to send e-mail with Excel attachment in "Plain text" format.
For more information go to
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...7c3c8348dce33a.

Regards,
Nika Lampe

"bob(delete " wrote:

I have just loaded office 2003 and tried to send an excel file to a friend
with office 2002 the file has arrived as a winmail.dat which he cannot open.
Is office 2003 backward compatable.
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Bob Hammond