place attachments anywhere in an email

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Wes Newman

Outlook 2002

Some of my emails are really long. It would be
convenient to include attachments anywhere in the email
body I am replying to instead of having all of them get
placed in the attachment section at the top of the mail
message.

New email messages and replies to emails I DID NOT
originate allow me to place attachments where you want
into the body of the email if RTF is enabled.

My issue is with inserting attachments to emails I
created, then sent and have been replied to and I am
looking at the email again. When I forward or reply and
try to place an attachment in the body of the email, the
attachment always gets stored in the attachment section
and not where I want them to go in the actual body of the
email.

Anyone have a magic wand for this one?
 
Wes Newman said:
Some of my emails are really long. It would be
convenient to include attachments anywhere in the email
body I am replying to instead of having all of them get
placed in the attachment section at the top of the mail
message.
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HTML and Plain Text messages will show the attachments in a line between the
subject and the body. Rich Text messaages will show the attachments within
the body.
New email messages and replies to emails I DID NOT
originate allow me to place attachments where you want
into the body of the email if RTF is enabled.
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It doesn't matter if you're replying or originating.
My issue is with inserting attachments to emails I
created, then sent and have been replied to and I am
looking at the email again. When I forward or reply and
try to place an attachment in the body of the email, the
attachment always gets stored in the attachment section
and not where I want them to go in the actual body of the
email.
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If you create a RIch Text message with attachments (keep in mind that only
other Outlook users will be able to read these attachments, since Rich Text
is an Outlook-specific format) and send it to someone else and they reply
with a, say, Plain Text message, you'll need to change the format to Rich
Text again in order to see attachments in the body.

Note, however, that no matter where you see the attachments, whether in the
body or out of the body (to borrow from Paul of Tarsus), they're attachments
and not actually embedded in the body of the message. If you look at the
MIME produced, you'd see that, in the body of the message where the
attachment appears, you'd see just a reference to the file name, like this:

<<attachment.doc>>

The actual attachment is really placed in separate MIME parts at the end of
the message no matter what format the message takes.
 
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