ask the sender to use plain text format to eliminate RTF as the cause.

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"TxWebdesigner" wrote in message
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My client sends me Word documents but they have been coming through lately
with a .dat extension that doesn't seem to allow me to open them. It's
encoded or something and looks like a bunch of symbols instead of text.

Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Thank you!