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.xls email attachments are arriving at the recipient as .dat file.
I am running Excel 2003 and yesterday I emailed (using Outlook 2003) twice to
different addresses at the same client with .xls attachments. Both times the attachments arrived as .dat files. When I sent myself one of the messages as a test, it arrived with the attachment OK and uncorrupted. Any ideas? is it their virus protection maybe? |
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UK-Graham wrote:
I am running Excel 2003 and yesterday I emailed (using Outlook 2003) twice to different addresses at the same client with .xls attachments. Both times the attachments arrived as .dat files. When I sent myself one of the messages as a test, it arrived with the attachment OK and uncorrupted. Any ideas? is it their virus protection maybe? I would suggest that you are sending in Rich Text Format and your clients are not using Outlook as their email client. Try sending using plain text or HTML format instead. -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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What email program are they using?
"UK-Graham" wrote in message ... : I am running Excel 2003 and yesterday I emailed (using Outlook 2003) twice to : different addresses at the same client with .xls attachments. Both times the : attachments arrived as .dat files. When I sent myself one of the messages as : a test, it arrived with the attachment OK and uncorrupted. Any ideas? is it : their virus protection maybe? |
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Try sending in "Plain Text" format to all receivers. Some email clients(Outlook Express for one) do not handle Rich Text Format and change the files to *.dat Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:43:09 -0800, UK-Graham wrote: I am running Excel 2003 and yesterday I emailed (using Outlook 2003) twice to different addresses at the same client with .xls attachments. Both times the attachments arrived as .dat files. When I sent myself one of the messages as a test, it arrived with the attachment OK and uncorrupted. Any ideas? is it their virus protection maybe? |
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Gord Dibben wrote:
Try sending in "Plain Text" format to all receivers. Some email clients(Outlook Express for one) do not handle Rich Text Format and change the files to *.dat Think you'll find it's *all* email clients other than Outlook! :-) |
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