by mikePOST@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mike Rosenberg)
Mar 20, 2008 at 04:00 PM
Scott <Scott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If you email an excel or word file from a PC to a mac you receive a
> winmail.dat file which cannot be opened by the application (excel, Word)
> on mac. how do you convert? How do you send a file that can be
opened???
It's not a PC-to-Mac problem, it's specifically a problem with a
misconfigured Outlook and can affect even recipients who are also using
PCs but receiving mail in other clients.
Here's an explanation of the problem and what the Outlook user needs to
do to fix the problem at the sending end:
http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
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