John
Wed Mar 22 18:06:21 CST 2006
Try this link, I think it may solve your problem or at least explain it.
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
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John G
Wot's Your Real Problem?
"Lila" <lila_towle@mail.dk> wrote in message
news:eCC%23LdmSGHA.4976@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I can open the files in Wordpad or by renaming them as ".doc". But this
>is very time-consuming, and apparently everyone my friend mails
>attachments to has the same problem. I received the same file OK as
>.rtf, but others have gotten nonsense. So it would be nice to fix the
>problem at the source - since they supposedly are regular Word files.
>His Word version is 2003 SP 2, operating system is Windows XP home
>edition, 2002.
>
> Lila
>
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> "Scud" <Scud@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:699C1DBF-1FCF-42A6-BBCD-8042420E33EC@microsoft.com...
>> Have you tried opening the file in another text editor such as
>> wordpad?
>>
>> "Lila" wrote:
>>
>>> We are running Word 2002 on Windows XP (Home). Attached files saved
>>> as Word
>>> ..doc (and copy received OK by sender ) come with "scrambled"
>>> letters and
>>> can't be opened (are read as .dat with a systems danger warning).
>>> The work
>>> around is to save the file in Word, re-name to .doc - this restores
>>> the
>>> file. I don't know the sender's version of Word but it came on a
>>> recently
>>> purchased laptop. Is this a version compatibility problem?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Lila
>>>
>>>
>>>
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