Laurie writes: I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad and I use Apple Mail. When my husband sends or forwards an email to me from Outlook using his PC, the attachments arrive as “winmail.dat” and I can’t open them.

Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Read A P7m Attachment Pdf
Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Read A P7m Attachment

Every search I have made on this subject says that this is just a problem between Outlook and Mail. Many forums recommend 3rd party software to open the attachments. You have got to be kidding! We shouldn’t have to be bouncing around with multiple programs just to do something as simple as see an attachment.

Is there a setting I am missing?

Hi Laurie! Nope, you’re not missing anything—and yes, there are occassions when Outlook and the Mac’s Mail app don’t play well together.

Specifically, Outlook has its own, unique method for formatting email messages that many other email clients can’t quite decode.

When that happens, the body of the message turns into an attachment named “winmail.dat”—and no, your Mac can’t open it without help from a third-party program. Annoying, but true.

Too many mail messages arriving as “winmail.dat” attachments? Windows users can set Outlook to disable the culprit: “Rich Text” formatting.

The good news is that your husband can set Outlook to deactivate its so-called “Rich Text Format” (which lets Outlook users compose messages with fancy fonts and other features) when sending messages to non-Outlookers.

Here’s how…

Outlook for mac 2011 how to read a p7m attachment pdf

Import Apple Mail to Outlook 2011. The software efficiently imports messages in the ‘Inbox’, ‘Drafts’, ‘Sent’, and ‘Notes’ folders of Apple Mail and restores them to a new ‘.rge’ file in their original format. You can easily import the ‘.rge’ file into Mac Outlook 2011 and access your mail data. Open up your Outlook email client. Click on File located in the upper toolbar.; Select the Options setting.; From here, select the Mail category.; Now, under Compose messages, you want to ensure the HTML or Plain Text option is selected for the Compose messages in this format. How do I change my password in Outlook 2011 for Mac? Go to the Outlook menu in the menu bar and choose Preferences. Click the Accounts button. If you have multiple accounts setup in Outlook 2011, please make sure that you are in your GCCCD Exchange account settings.

Note: The steps below are for Outlook 2013; the instructions may (and probably will) differ for earlier versions of Outlook.

Open Outlook, click the File menu, then select Options.
Click the Mail tab on the left side of the Outlook Options window, find the “Compose messages” section, then change the setting for “Compose messages in this format” from “Rich Text” to “HTML” or “Plain Text.”
Does your husband want to keep his “Rich Text” setting? If so, he can scroll down to the “Message format” heading, find the “When sending messages in Rich Text format to Internet recipients” setting, then select “Convert to HTML format.”

Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Read A P7m Attachment

OK, but what about mail messages you’ve already received with cryptic “winmail.dat” attachments?

Well, there are (as you mentioned) several apps in the Mac App Store that’ll open winmail.dat attachments for you, but they all cost a few bucks.

A highly recommended free option, though, is a program called “TNEF’s Enough.” Just download, install and launch the app, then drag a winmail.dat file onto TNEF’s Enough dock icon to open the attachment.

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
Final release
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications shown on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	October 26, 2010; 10 years ago
Operating system	Mac OS X 10.5.8 to macOS 10.14.6
Predecessor	Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Successor	Microsoft Office 2016
Type	Office suite
License
Website	www.microsoft.com/mac/

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for macOS. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017.^[2]

New features[edit]

Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. Its interface is now more similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows, with the addition of the ribbon. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008.^[3]^[4] Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac.^{[citation needed]} In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. It also includes limited support for Apple's high-density Retina Displays, allowing the display of sharp text and images, although most icons within applications themselves are not optimized for this.

Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Read A P7m Attachment Pdf

A new version of Microsoft Outlook, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.^[5] It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2001, X, 2004 and 2008 for Mac.^[6]

Limitations[edit]

Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. It does not support ActiveX controls,^[7] or OpenDocument Format.^[8]^[9] It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows, which are delivered as winmail.dat attachments.^{[citation needed]} It also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew ^[10] and automatic language detection. ^[11]

Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud. Outlook also does not allow the user to disable Cached Exchange Mode, unlike the Windows version, and it is therefore not possible to connect to an Exchange Server without downloading a local cache of mail and calendar data. ^[12]

Office for Mac 2011 also has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2010. Support for Office for Mac 2011 was originally scheduled to end on January 12, 2016, but because Office for Mac 2016 did not come out until July 2015, Microsoft extended support until October 10, 2017. ^[13] As 32-bit software, it will not run on macOS Catalina or later versions of macOS. It is also not officially supported on macOS High Sierra or macOS Mojave.^[14]^[15]

Editions[edit]

Two editions are available to the general public. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outloo

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Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Read A P7m Attachment Pdf

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