when replying to a letter, outlook should include attachments

[Guest]

In Outlook 2003, you can only foward a letter with an attachment. This
causes you to have to reenter all of the emails that need to receive the
attachment. Why not give the Reply or Reply to all function the ability to
keep the attachments with them.

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[Gordon]

In Outlook 2003, you can only foward a letter with an attachment. This
causes you to have to reenter all of the emails that need to receive the
attachment. Why not give the Reply or Reply to all function the ability to
keep the attachments with them.

because when you do a "reply" that is replying to the person who sent you
the attachment in the first place - they already HAVE it!

 

[Guest]

Yes, Gordon, that is true. But I very frequently (like every day) want to
reply to the sender, and possibly the other senders on the original emai,
with the original attachment included. Why? Because this makes it a lot
easier for the adressees to have the attachment available to open and view
for comments I may wish tomake in my return email. Not only that, but it's
entirely possible if I didn't include it, some/all of the other addressees
will not be able to access the attachment at all because they deleted the
original mail! Finally, I may wish to open/edit the attachment with
comments, notes, changes, etc., even if the originator did not send it for
comment.

I suspect those also may be the same as teeman's reasons for wnating to do so.

Charlie

 

[Guest]

I often need to "Reply to All" addressees, with the original attachment, and
be able to add new addressees. The Microsoft "feature" to strip the
attachment(s) from Replies, forces me to either copy-paste the attachment(s)
to the reply or "Forward" the message and retype/copy-paste all of the
addressees--a time-wasting work-around.

Yes, although it seems inefficient to send an attachment back to everyone
that already has it... when you are dealing with 200+ emails a day, the extra
steps for everyone to keep track of the correct attachment adds nearly an
hour to each day.

What seems inefficient in network-bandwidth-land and email-size land is
equally inefficient in time-to-send-emails-land--we should have the option to
attach or not attach on replies.

Yes, it would be nice if everyone had a common share drive on the network
and no attachments needed to be passed at all, but corporate/government
security keeps us from using many of the very features of a basic
network--like "sharing" or "sending links".

For those who say, "because when you do a "reply" that is replying to the
person who sent you the attachment in the first place - they already HAVE
it!"... you are wasting words. We *know* they already have it, but the need
for "reply" with attachments capability remains--present a solution instead
of questioning or disregarding the person's problem.

Until Microsoft recognizes this need, I will investigate VBA code
possibilities for a macro button that will "Reply with attachments" and
"Reply to all with attachments"

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Code sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=1228

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Most excellent, Thank You. This saves me much work... I've added it to my
new custom toolbar already with a nice little "A" in the "Reply to" icons...