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How do I view only specific extension types in Outlook's “attach file” explorer window?

I send a lot of, nearly exclusively, .docx, pdf, or .xlsx. Whenever opening an explorer window following an "attach file" command I'd love to be able to only see the files with these extensions within ...
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XML based email attachment being renamed

I am experiencing a strange problem when receiving email attachments. The files are valid XML files, but they have the file extension .usf or.xif. When the emails are opened in Outlook and the ...
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adding an attachment to a reply places it in original email outlook 2010 [closed]

In Outlook 2010. When I recieve an email with attachments and I then click reply. New message window open I go up too insert attachment. The attachment does not appear on the new window of the message ...
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Does Outlook cache attachments when composing an email?

This is something that I consistantly wonder about when I send an email that includes attachments. Say I'm working on a Word document and I want to email it to some co-workers. I open up Outlook and ...
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Automatic extraction of e-mail

I have two e-mail addresses on different two Exchange servers and I have a rule from the second one (at my customer) that forward all incoming e-mails as attachment to the main one (my company) so ...
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use Outlook to send split zip files

I have trying to send a big file to someone whose email account cannot accept single email with large file and email is the only option for sending the file. Currently I am using 7zip to split the ...
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Extract and view Outlook contacts attachment sent to Gmail

A friend forwarded a contact list to my gmail account from Outlook (2007 or 2010, not sure which). I can see there is an attachment in gmail but when I save it to my local drive it's just a plain text ...
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Why does Microsoft block .url attachments and not .htm in Outlook?

Outlook by default blocks .url attachments and not .htm – why? Any dangerous URL that could be in .url file, could also easily be in a .htm file and could be launched using javascript automatically. ...
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Prevent Nail from attaching my message as a .bin file?

When I pipe a very long change log into nail, I receive a blank email with a .bin attachment named ATT00001..bin in Outlook. The file is 36KB and contains the expected text but double spaced ...
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macro to download selected messages attachments - Problem about downloaded files count

I changed some codes for getting selected messages attachments to my hard drive like below : Public Sub SaveAttachments() Dim objOL As Outlook.Application Dim objMsg As Outlook.MailItem 'Object Dim ...
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Where does Outlook 2007 store opened attachments temporarily?

If a 'friend' has double-clicked an Excel attachment from an Outlook 2007 email and worked on it, saved it and then closed Excel and the email, where would that file be lurking (assuming I haven't ...
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Outlook sends uninvited images as attachments

Outlook is always sending along 2 pictures (image001.png and image002.gif) with my mails. Even if I don't attach any images. How do I fix this? Thanks. EDIT - SIGNATURE The HTML of my signature: ...
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How can I create a rule in Outlook that will automatically save & unzip an attachment when an email arrives?

I get a regular email about our site's web stats from WebTrends, but it comes as a zipped attachment. I'm wondering if there's a simple way to have a rule run a script that will unzip the attachment ...
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Cannot open attachments in Outlook Express

I can open anything attached to e-mail. On the same computer, my wife can open nothing on hers? We have outlook express.
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Search for email containg attachment of specific file type

I'd like to search for an email that contains an excel attachment. I'm using outlook. I know I can do hasattachment:true but this matches any attachment type I've also tried, ...
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How to get outlook email attachment onto a file server?

Background: Every work day I get an e-mail message from a known sender. The sender puts an attachment in the e-mail message. I have to process that attachment with a python script. Question: What ...
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Strip attachments from emails to disk but leave a link in the email to the attachment

I want to be able to strip attachments from emails and save them to disk. What I also want to do in addition to this is leave a link within the email to the attachment that was stripped out and saved ...
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keyboard shortcut to send a file as mail attachment

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 ...
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How to do a mail merge with attachments

I'm trying to use MS Word and Outlook 2003 to send a bunch of emails with attachments but apparently this option is not allowed. ¿Any clean way to do this?