Contact the party that sent you the document and tell then
to save it in a Word format with the extension " .doc "
and resend.
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
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| a paper was sent to our office over e-mail. we cannot open it. it was saved
| without an extension. it is coming up as a dat file.