why are office docs sent as attachments being received at dat fil

[Ben in LA]

I am sending Word and Excel documents as attachments through Outlook and they
are being received as dat files - which the receiver is not able to open.
How can I fix this situation?

Thank you. Pls reply to (e-mail address removed)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

compose your email using html or plain text, not RTF format.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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