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Excel files appear as winmail.dat in Outlook 2011 for mac for attachments sent from a windows PC using Outlook 2007

Hello,

 

I am using a Macbook running MAX OS X Lion with Microsoft Office MAC 2011 Home and Business installed on it.

 

I am receiving the attachment as winmail.dat from users who try to send excel attachments (.xls or .xlsx) using Microsoft Outlook 2007 from a Windows based PC.

 

I am able to view the Excel attachments from Outlook 2010 users.

 

The issue is only from emails received from the messages sent from Outlook 2007 installed on a Windows based PC.

 

Can you please provide solution for the following?

1. Changes to be made in Outlook for MAC 2011 so that I do not receive winmail.dat for Excel attachments sent from a windows PC using Outlook 2007

2. Recover the excel attachments received as winmail.dat on my mails.

 

Appreciate your kind help.

Regards

Ganesh Krishnamurthy.

 

 

Answer
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That's a VERY common problem with some servers.
They convert the text in the e-mail in a format no other e-mail client supports.
There is a pretty good description of the problem (and possible solutions) on a page William Smith wrote:
http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/glossary/winmail-dat/
          Corentin

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