I know that if I "Forward" an email with an attachment the attachment goes
with it. Is there any way to automatically have "replies" do the same thing?

> I know that if I "Forward" an email with an attachment the attachment
> goes with it. Is there any way to automatically have "replies" do the
> same thing?

Not built into the product. Mostly because, well, if you're replying to
someone who sent you a word doc, they already have that word doc so there's
no reason to send it back to them.


--
f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MVP

Yes, but if you change it, they don't have the changes. I do this frequently
with Excel Workbooks. Can you develop a rule to do it?
Thanks.

"F.H. Muffman" wrote:

> > I know that if I "Forward" an email with an attachment the attachment
> > goes with it. Is there any way to automatically have "replies" do the
> > same thing?
>
> Not built into the product. Mostly because, well, if you're replying to
> someone who sent you a word doc, they already have that word doc so there's
> no reason to send it back to them.
>
>
> --
> f.h.
> Microsoft Outlook MVP
>
>
>

If you changed it, then the file that's in the email you're replying to
doesn't have the changes, either. The new file you saved would have them.

Joe

"CSSJIM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news5CEF48E-2303-49ED-B206-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yes, but if you change it, they don't have the changes. I do this
> frequently
> with Excel Workbooks. Can you develop a rule to do it?
> Thanks.
>
> "F.H. Muffman" wrote:
>
>> > I know that if I "Forward" an email with an attachment the attachment
>> > goes with it. Is there any way to automatically have "replies" do the
>> > same thing?
>>
>> Not built into the product. Mostly because, well, if you're replying to
>> someone who sent you a word doc, they already have that word doc so
>> there's
>> no reason to send it back to them.
>>
>>
>> --
>> f.h.
>> Microsoft Outlook MVP
>>
>>
>>

Joe,

I have two solutions for you.

- First
If you click forward button and then open attached file and edit it, then
save changes - and only then, click Send Button, you will send that updated
file.

But in this case, edited files will be only stored as attachments in Send
Items folder (i.e. you will not have a copy of that file on HDD).


- Second solution is Attachments Processor for Outlook.
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/

You can setup a rule for this outlook plug-in to extract incoming
attachments to HDD, after that you can open extracted file from the link to
it in your incoming message, edit it, and use add-in option "Forward with
Attachments Processor for Outlook" for forwarding updated file.

--
Nick Kharchenko, MAPILab Ltd.
Software for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook


"Joe Grover" wrote:

> If you changed it, then the file that's in the email you're replying to
> doesn't have the changes, either. The new file you saved would have them.
>
> Joe
>
> "CSSJIM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news5CEF48E-2303-49ED-B206-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Yes, but if you change it, they don't have the changes. I do this
> > frequently
> > with Excel Workbooks. Can you develop a rule to do it?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > "F.H. Muffman" wrote:
> >
> >> > I know that if I "Forward" an email with an attachment the attachment
> >> > goes with it. Is there any way to automatically have "replies" do the
> >> > same thing?
> >>
> >> Not built into the product. Mostly because, well, if you're replying to
> >> someone who sent you a word doc, they already have that word doc so
> >> there's
> >> no reason to send it back to them.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> f.h.
> >> Microsoft Outlook MVP
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>