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An Apple user claims that he sent me a Word document, but the file extension
is "DAT" and opening with a text editor display compressed or encoded file
with PK near beginning but the file is not in fact a PKZIP or other ZIP
file?

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Default Received fromApple word DAT file format - how to open

This seems to be a common problem - see
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-...word-document/

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An Apple user claims that he sent me a Word document, but the file
extension
is "DAT" and opening with a text editor display compressed or encoded file
with PK near beginning but the file is not in fact a PKZIP or other ZIP
file?



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