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About Nancy Janyszeski
Expertise
Creating,sending, receiving e-mail, scheduling calendar items, tasks, using the journal, recurring appointments, default settings, Including Office 2007.

Experience
I currently teach Microsoft Office 2003 and Office 2007, plus FrontPage and HTML at our Vocational Schools .

I am Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Certified and was certified as a MOUS Authorized Instructor. Instructional design and test writer for ActivTest, a division of Activ Training

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Microsoft Outlook - winmail.dat files

Expert: Nancy Janyszeski - 6/27/2009

Question
Whenever someone using Microsoft Outlook as their email server sends me an email with attachments I have problems. I can read the body of their email but the attachments come through as "winmail.dat" and I cannot open them. What can I do? It is imperative that I can read emails from these people as they are work related.

Thank you

Answer
Scott, the sender needs to send the attachments in a different format. I have seen this and I also cannot open a *.dat file.

They need to open the file and save as a Word, Winword,text ect. file.

Have you asked the sender what the file is and what application is creating it and how they are attaching to the e-mail?

Nancy

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