Winmail.dat attachment

I sometimes forward a file from my office (PC) to my home email address. The attachment I recently tried to send was a word document, but was received as a winmail.dat file. I have made the changes in Outlook to supposedly resolve this issue, i.e. changed the settings to HTML, but still receiving winmail.dat. I also have Office 2004 installed on the imac. I noted that there is third party shareware available to "resolve" this issue. Is there another solution?

The Apple Mail Plug-in OMiC process Microsoft Outlook winmail.dat files.

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