Microsoft Word can accommodate a surprising number of file formats, and even take in Excel and PowerPoint data, though it might look funny. Here's how.

Users with Microsoft Word can sometimes get to the text in the winmail.dat file by opening it from within Word and scrolling down through a lot of garbled code until they reach the main content of ...

If you're having trouble opening a DAT file, I'll show you a simple and free way to do it. This method works on both Mac and PC. Just open your browser and go to winmaildat.com. It's a ...

Though DAT files, which house data as the shortened name implies, are usually best left alone, here's how you can open them.