winmail.dat cannot be stopped even after followin all help files

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phil7127 - 31 Jul 2007 11:12 GMT

new instalation of vista prem with office 2003 all help fails to stop
winmail.dat files being sent even to hotmail, somewhere there is a box
setting which version of office my recients will use I set this to 2003 but
cant find it again this was when the problem started.

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BillR [MVP] - 31 Jul 2007 11:25 GMT

you need to ensure you do not send in Rich Text Format.
There is no setting wrt the versions of Outlook. It's a mail format issue.
Look in Tools | Options | Mail Format tab. You want outlook to convert rtf
to html.

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> new instalation of vista prem with office 2003 all help fails to stop
> winmail.dat files being sent even to hotmail, somewhere there is a box
> setting which version of office my recients will use I set this to 2003
> but
> cant find it again this was when the problem started.

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phil7127 - 31 Jul 2007 12:10 GMT

Thanks your answer showed up a prob in my comp , the mouse was not activating
the apply button when i changed to plain text or html, hense changes were not
being applied.
regards phil r

> you need to ensure you do not send in Rich Text Format.
> There is no setting wrt the versions of Outlook. It's a mail format issue.
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> > but
> > cant find it again this was when the problem started.

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