Receiving Attachments

If someone has sent a you a file, a paper-clip icon appears next to the message name in the Message list (refer to Figure 14.10). Outlook Express stores an attachment with its message in a single, specially encoded mail file. You can open an attachment from the mail file or save it separately as a normal file on your hard drive. (To send attachments, see the Tips in “Sending Email” earlier in this chapter.)

To open an attachment

• In the Preview pane, click the paper-clip icon in the header; then choose the file name (Figure 14.13).
  
  

  Figure 14.13. If the selected message has files attached, a paper-clip icon appears on the right side of the Preview pane header. Click the icon for a shortcut menu; then choose the name of the attached file to open (in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or whatever), or choose Save Attachments to save it to your hard drive.

  

  
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  At the top of the message window, double-click the file icon in the Attach header (refer to Figure 14.7).