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pauliner wrote:
: Thanks for your suggestion, Tony, but it didn't work. However, I then
: had an idea stemming from another discovery - attachments sent from
: my laptop (XP Pro, Outlook 2002) to my desktop (98SE, OE 6) aren't
: openable - all apparently due to Outlook in rich text mode sending
: them as winmail.dat files which OE can't handle. Surprise, surprise,
: my Outlook is by default in rich text mode and that still causes the
: icon problem I've been complaining about. When I switch to HTML or
: plain text mode, hey presto the attachment line appears and my icon
: problem goes away!! Sorted!
Great. Thanks for posting.
TonyS
:
: "TonyS" wrote:
:
:: Wesley Vogel wrote:
::: Sorry. I misread your first post and thought you were talking about
::: Outlook Express not Outlook. I know nothing about Outlook.
:::
:: Use paperclip icon and choose attach file. This will open an
:: attachment line and list the file you choose.
:: TonyS
::
:: s:4286AD7A-6DE1-45AD-AB9E-6433AFAA990E@microsoft.com,
::: pauliner <pauliner@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
:::: Sorry, but this doesn't help really - it gives me an icon in body
:::: text exactly as before. By contrast, when I put an attachment into
:::: an OE email message in my desktop's Windows 98 SE system the name
:::: of the attachment is shown neatly in an attachment box under the
:::: subject box in the headers, leaving the body of the email text free
:::: of floating attachment icons. Similarly, when I receive an email
:::: with an attachment on my laptop (where I have XP Pro and use
:::: Outlook 2002) the name of the attachment(s) and size(s) are in a
:::: neat line in the headers and not floating around in the body of
:::: the email. So what I'm after is just to be able to send an email
:::: with attachment(s) from my laptop and see the name(s) of the
:::: attachment(s) neatly in an attachment box up with the headers,
:::: rather than have the attachment icons floating around in the body
:::: of the email text. I'd assumed that perhaps there was a format
:::: choice somewhere between the two methods of showing the
:::: attachment, which I hadn't been able to locate - but perhaps it
:::: isn't as simple as that?
::::
:::: "Wesley Vogel" wrote:
::::
::::: Insert | File Attachment
:::::
::::: --
::::: Hope this helps. Let us know.
::::: Wes
:::::
::::: In news:81F40D76-1231-4E07-870F-31870AB08354@microsoft.com,
::::: pauliner <pauliner@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
:::::: When I send an attachment with an email in Outlook (eg selected
:::::: from My Documents), it appears as an icon in the body of the
:::::: email text, when I would much prefer it to be represented as an
:::::: attachment line up with the other header information ie subject,
:::::: recipients etc. I'm sure I'm missing a very simple cure for this,
:::::: but I haven't found it yet!
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