Receiving Attachments from Apple Computers on a Windows Machine (unable to open)

Have you ever had the problem that you receive a file attachment via email and it is an unknown format, and you have no program with which to open it?

This can happen with an Apple user sending a file to a Windows users and the file extension is a .dat file, which cannot be opened by Windows. Well it is not as problematic as it may at first seem. For files that you know from the sender are files with common extensions such as a word processing file (.doc) or a spreadsheet (.xls), see the example below.

In our example there is a file called UNKNOWN FILE.

All that needs to be done is to right-click over the file in question, select RENAME.

In our case we renamed it as follows KNOWN FILE.Doc.

The important part is to add the extension of the file when renaming it. As can be seen from the picture, the icon has changed into a Word Icon and can now be opened in Microsoft Word.

The ‘>’ (right arrow symbol) in Emails – how to remove it?

Often, particularly when emails are forwarded from one person to another you receive an email with a lot of >’s.

Select the text, including the ‘>‘, and select copy.

Paste into a Microsoft Word document.

Select Edit & Paste from the Microsoft Word menu.

In the section find what: type in the symbol ‘>‘.

Leave Replace with: Blank.

You may still need to format the text, but all the ‘>’s’ will have disappeared.

You can now select the text and send it in an email without the ‘>‘.