keyboard shortcut to send a file as mail attachment

Question

Is there any shortcut or way to create a shortcut to attach selected file as mail attachment in Outlook. Now, I've to right click the selected file and use "Send To-->Mail Recipient" option. A shortcut will help a lot.

Answer 1

Ctrl + N in outlook will open new email. You can copy past the attachment to the new email.

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V ;-)

Answer 2

There is no default Windows shortcut, however you would be able to create your own using AutoHotKey

Answer 3

For those who like to work at the command line, check out blat. Once configured, it can be used to form and send a complete email from a single command. Note that blat is a complete mail user agent itself: it does not use Outlook or any other mailer on the PC.

For example, the following command:

C:\...>blat -to someone@example.com -subject "Totality" -attach total.jpg -body "Here's that shot of the total eclipse"
Blat v2.6.2 w/GSS encryption (build : Feb 25 2007 12:06:19)

Sending stdin.txt to someone@example.com
Subject: Totality
Login name is me@example.com
Attached binary file: total.jpg

C:\...>

Sends a photo along with a short text caption to a single recipient, printing some reassuring progress notes along the way.

It is actually quite the powerful tool, and can be handy if you need to have a long-running (or scheduled at odd times) batch job that you'd like to report results from.

Answer 4

I have Outlook 2010. The answer here is simply: AltN, then AF. This will bring up your word files for attachment.

Answer 5

Just use the default ALT (underlined) shorcuts, so for Sent to Mail Recipient:

ALT + F N M