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Choose the right format for sending


Message received via the Internet has Winmail.dat file attached; Winmail.dat file opened in Notepad

A message with gobbledygook in it.

COURSE TEXT

You carefully formatted an e-mail message and sent it to someone over the Internet. When they replied, you saw that your text had lost its format, and instead it appeared to be plain text with a lot of gobbledygook mixed in. Or, maybe they replied that they couldn't open the "Winmail.dat" file that you sent.

Why would this happen, and how can you avoid this scenario? Read this lesson to find out.

To continue reading this lesson on your own, click Next.

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