attachments converting to .dat files

L

L Smith

Anyone have a solution for the following problem:

When sending a file attachment, (in this case an .xls) on
the receivers end it ends up converted to a .dat file
(renaming file to .xls and opening it works though)

Both systems are using Outlook 2000, and are sending in
HTML (not RTF). Western European(ISO) encoding has been
specified as well.

The problem only started recently for what seems to be no
reason.

- L Smith
 
G

Gordon Burgess-Parker

L said:
Anyone have a solution for the following problem:

When sending a file attachment, (in this case an .xls) on
the receivers end it ends up converted to a .dat file
(renaming file to .xls and opening it works though)

Both systems are using Outlook 2000, and are sending in
HTML (not RTF). Western European(ISO) encoding has been
specified as well.

The problem only started recently for what seems to be no
reason.

- L Smith
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Presumably the recievers machine has Excel installed?
 
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