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Change default program to open attachments

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Lucy De Castro
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winmail.dat files opens automatically in excel which is unreadable. How do I change that to a program that I can read it. Outlook opens it up in PDF program but not Mozilla

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winmail.dat files opens automatically in excel which is unreadable. How do I change that to a program that I can read it. Outlook opens it up in PDF program but not Mozilla Please assist.

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Matt
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first go to settings and search for PDF. in the list of helper applications locate DAT and delete it.

Next go to the support article on winmail.dat attachments. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-winmaildat-attachment

Fundamentally your recipient will almost certainly be using an ancient copy of outlook to send mail as this has ceased to be a major issue years ago as Microsoft changed the defaults in Outlook.

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