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How to Attachment a
file to an Email
- Click on the toolbar or icon
(it normally looks like a paperclip)
- Find the file you want to attach using the file browser on your computer
- Then click to attach it -
one file successfully attached!
- You can repeat this operation to attach many files to a single email. You can even attach a group of files all at once if you highlight several at the same time.
- You can attach most types of document file (but not program files) but the recipient will need the right software to read them.
- Make sure the person knows you are sending an attachment as some people, very wisely, delete emails with attachments from people they do not recognize as attachments are a popular way
to send viruses.
- Some people tell their server not to download large files so check they are not blocking.
- Remember that your email, and the attachment, sit in your outbox until you connect and send.
- Emails with attachments take much longer to send.
- Please note that any illustrations should be sent as email attachments in jpeg or tiff format.
- If the receiver has a free email account like Hotmail, the inbox might not be big enough to take an attached file.
- You can tell if an email has an attachment because it tells you by listing the attached files or an icon, such as a paperclip, beside the name of the sender.
- To open an email with an attachment, just double-click, or right click, on the file then save (or save as) the document. (It varies between email software and your personal
settings).
- Until you save the attached file to your My Documents,
it remains part of the email.
- If you delete the email before detaching the file, you will lose it.
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