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Tip 911: Resizing Image Attachments in Outlook

Outlook 2003's Attachment pane

A reader had a question about resizing pictures in Outlook 2010. He upgraded from Outlook 2003 and used the Attachment pane to resize images. Unfortunately for him, Outlook 2010 doesn’t use the panes, but it does have an option to resize attached images. Outlook 2003′s Attachment pane has an option to resize attached photos which...
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Tip 906: Opening Attachments Removes & and * from the Filename

save-all-attachments

When a document with a filename containing either an ampersand or an asterisk character in it arrives attached to an email, the characters disappear from the filename when you open the attachment. An Outlook user had this to say: “When you first open the e-mail and see the attachment, the filename looks fine and...
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Editing Attachments in Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 makes all attachments read-only. This change in behavior annoys some users and makes many other users (and administrators!) happy. If you are in the annoyed group, open the message and choose Edit Message before opening the attachment. This will make the attachment editable. Remember to save the attachment before closing the open...
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Save Email Attachments (but don’t delete them from message)

Save Email Attachments (but don’t delete them from message)

The following code works in Outlook 2000 and up. It saves the attachments from selected messages but does not delete the attachments from the message(s). Copy and paste the code from this page into your ThisOutlookSession project. To do this, click in the text box, Select All using Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy. In Outlook,...
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Save and Delete Attachments from Outlook messages

The following is the Save Attachment code sample from Teach Yourself Outlook in 24 Hours. Frank modified the code to break it into a single call for each mail item so you can use it with a rule to filter incoming mail. Frank's code modification (page 2) Augusto modified Frank's code "in order to avoid...
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Using Outlook’s Automatic Formatting

Using Outlook’s Automatic Formatting

Microsoft Outlook has a feature called Automatic Formatting which lets you color items in a list, making them easier to see. While it’s called an “automatic formatting rule” its not a Rule applied by the Rules Wizard but a feature of a View. The formatting is not applied directly to the item and will...
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Opening Zip Attachments in Windows 7

Opening Zip Attachments in Windows 7

Problem: When using Outlook 2003 on Windows 7, users can’t open zip attachments from a message – double clicking on the zip brings up the open/save dialog but clicking Open does not open it (the zip is saved in the securetemp folder each time you double click though). To open the zips, users need...
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Questions about Read Only Attachments

Receiving Read Only Attachments A reader asks: “Every attachment I receive is marked “read-only” by default in Outlook.  Is there a way to remove the default of read-only that is attached to all incoming email?  I do not want to have to open every email before saving it.  I have poked around but can’t...
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Tip 317: Change the File, Save Attachment Location

Here’s a tip I thought I posted weeks ago, but I can’t find it on the website, so I guess I didn’t. :( Do you want to change the default file folder Outlook 2003 uses for attachments? While you can’t set a folder for attachments you send, you can set one for storing received...
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Tip 276: Display Inline Images

One thing that really bugs former Outlook express users when they switch to outlook is the lack of inline display of images in the preview pane. There is not a setting you can enable to display images inline – Outlook does not support it. You can use VBA to create a picture viewer so...
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