All attachments opening as plain text

Apparently without any changing of settings the mail program is opening all attachments as plain text. This occurs although the program is available to open the attachment. I know the attachments can be saved to the desktop and then opened, but this causes clutter and many attachments are not worthy of saving. Any suggestions on restoring the mail program to seeking the proper application to match the attachment. I have tried searching all the menus and cannot get View>message>best alternative to be highlighted and selectable. Thank you for any suggestions.

''re: not displaying any incoming messages with html.''
Do you have this setting ?
'View' > 'Message Body as ' > 'Original HTML'
BTW - you may prefer to see all the toolbars. They can be enabled - see image below.

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Hello Melianos,
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When I open raw plain text emails (i.e. not formatted as HTML) I only see the first
255 characters of the email body; all of the remainder is chopped off, and never appears no matter how many times I re-open the email.
I have narrowed this down to my somewhat unusual download preferences in Outlook. They are configured as follows:
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Starting Outlook in Safe Mode does not solve it.
Note: I already asked this
question at the Office Community site and it was suggested I
post on the Exchange Server Outlook Clients forum. The feedback there suggested it to be client related, so now I've been directed to post here!
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Hi Melon, thanks for your response.
My plain text font is set up as the default, Automatic.
In any case, I can see the first 255 characters of the plain text body, so plain text font colour can be eliminated as a potential problem.
After the 255th character, the body text then stops. There are no "hidden characters". If I shrink the window height to accommodate just what I see, the vertical scrollbar does not appear. This confirms that there are no hidden lines of text
below.
The mail is simply not downloaded from the server correctly. If I drag the mail onto my desktop, then view that file in Programmer's Notepad, I can see that after the position representing the 255th character in the body of the email, there is garbage (control
characters).
If, instead, I first mark the email for downloaded and then click the "process marked headers", wait for it to download and then drag it onto my desktop, by contrast, the body contents look complete and this is reflected in the fact that I can
see the whole email when I open it in Outlook.
This problem has so far affected me on four different PC setups (1xWinXP, 3xWin7) and two versions of Outlook (2010 and 2013). However, Cobweb -- our cloud email provider -- did recently upgrade to Exchange 2013, so that might be an important factor.
I don't think I can remember seeing these plain text issues in the 10 years previous to that upgrade during which I've been using various flavours of Outlook.
I have supplied repro steps in the original report above. Could someone please try these? I have expanded them in full below for simplicity:
To reproduce:
1. Change your download preferences in Outlook. They are configured from the ribbon bar as follows (assuming you are using Outlook in Cached Exchange mode, connecting to Exchange 2013):
Send/Receive -> Download Preferences -> Download Headers (checked).
2. Send yourself a plain text email containing more than 300 characters of text.
3. Wait for the Inbox headers to finish refreshing.
4. Open the new email.
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If I format fonts, even in a "plain text" document, am I going to wind up with code again when I reopen it?
Not unless you save it as rich text.
Why is a "plain text" document even offering me bold and italics or any other kind of formatting?
Why would someone wanting to write plain text use bold or italics options? On the other hand, I'm sure many people would like to print and compose formatted text now and then even when they prefer to keep TextEdit in plain text mode for most of their work.
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How to send a plain text and HTML email at once?

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I know this should be a no-brainer, and maybe the toddler running around in the background here and my pressing job hunt is preventing me from seeing the obvious, but I'm having trouble sending out my resume as a plain text attachment from my iMac mail account.
I've tried sending it out to my own blackberry to make sure it's not garbled before I blast it to Monster, et al, and the attachments aren't even showing up on my blackberry. When I check my sent mail file on the desktop, it's there, supposedly attached. I've tried compressing it, sending it as a windows-friendly attachment and sending it with a .doc extension file at the end with no luck.
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I've tried sending it out to my own blackberry to make sure it's not garbled before I blast it to Monster, et al, and the attachments aren't even showing up on my blackberry.
If your Blackberry isn't designed to show attachments (I don't know, since I don't use one), that would be expected. Did you try just sending it as part of the actual message, instead of an attachment? As for Monster, creating or uploading a resume is done from their web site, so an attachment has no bearing on your using them.
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I am using the following format for the mail header
dataFile << "\nContent-Type: MULTIPART/mixed; ";
dataFile << "BOUNDARY=Shrewdness_of_Apes_263_000"<<endl;
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The information in your link is wrong.
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I hope you can help me. I've imported all my emails from Eudora into Outlook 2010 but I have a couple of problems.
All emails that I've imported which had attachments with them have a notice on them saying the attachment has been blocked. I can always browse to the folder whereb my old attachments are stored, but this is still inconvenient.
Secondly, all my messages that I've sent in the past (html) are being displayed in plain text, which is making them difficult to read because of all the html tags being displayed.
Also with emails that I've sent in the past- there is no record of any attachments being sent with messages which I know had attachments with them.
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David:
I know this is a very old thread, but did you every figure out a way to fix the formatting of imported Eudora mail?
I just "upgraded" from Eudora to Outlook 2010 ...
and have 10 years worth of HTML formatted e-mail that now shows up as plain text with embedded html formatting ...
apparently it is a long-running problem that has roots in the way Eudora formats messages ...
Outlook and other e-mail clients all seems to have issues with importing and do not properly recognize HTML-formatted messages from Eudora ... very sad that I can no longer really "read" my old e-mail at this point ... :-(
See closing paragraphs here: http://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/2800
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When reading the Rich Text present in Excel column using open XML its taking it as plain text

Hello All,
When i am reading excel columns using open Xml in C# everything is working fine except the column that
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Hi Ejaz,
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