Outlook 2007 problems !!

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

I have got a problem with some of the e-mails I am receiving in Outlook 2007. They have got the pictures enclosed within the e-mail and not as an attachment. So having a problem to save just the picture. It shows each of the pictures and then the JPG name below. When I asked the sender to resend as an attachment this did not work as he was already sending as an attachment. Just to check I got him to send it to a computer with Outlook 2003 on it and yes it was as an attachment. So he can't do anything different.

Anyone got any ideas ? please    as with most computer issues it's driving me nuts  

[Nick PC]

Nick

There is a preview feature which may be what you are seeing which shows the attachment in the email. This normally happens when you click on an attachment. You are right clicking on attachment to open?

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your answer, it's not that. When I open the e-mail it already has the 3 pictures there to see without me doing anything. Also in the area where attachments are shown it only shows the AVG, not the 3 pictures as attachments.

I tried chaning the preview settings in the View menu, but still couldn't get it to work.

Any other ideas ?

Cheers

Nick

[Nick PC]

Nick

Try turning off the attachment preview.

In Outlook, on the Tools menu, click Trust Center, and then click Attachment Handling.

To turn off   all attachment previewers, click Turn off Attachment Preview.

See if that does the job, if not stop Luke playing with the equipment.

[JohnCh]

Do you have a photo editor?  If so, then you should be able to right click on the image, click copy, and paste it into a new file in the editor.  

-John

[Blatman]

You should be able to simply right click and "save as..." on the image itself...

If I can find my version of Outlook 2007, I'll have a dig through the options. Sadly, I have it as a bootable .exe on a key, and I'm not sure where the key is right now

[RichP]

Nick,

Not sure but try:

Tools / Options / Mail Format

There should be an option to select Message Format in either Rich Text, Plain Text or HTML

I have a feeling that if you swap these around you may change the way attachements are presented to you, but I could be wrong. Once you've changed them you MIGHT need to re-receive the message to change the way it's managed, but try just swapping first.

Good luck,

Rich

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

Thanks for all the ideas guys, using a modification of these I have finally got a sort of solution. I tried the right click and all it would let me do is copy. But I then tried view in browser, then it allowed me to "save picture" which I did. It would only save as a BMP but still usable.

b****y computers who invented em  

[Blatman]

Thanks for all the ideas guys, using a modification of these I have finally got a sort of solution. I tried the right click and all it would let me do is copy. But I then tried view in browser, then it allowed me to "save picture" which I did. It would only save as a BMP but still usable.

b****y computers who invented em  

Copy works... just open whatever programmme you use to edit your pictures and select paste...

With the picture now saved as a bitmap, right click the icon / thumbnail for it and simply change the extension from .bmp to .jpg. The system will say that altering the file extension may cause the file to not work, but it *should* be ok. If not, put it back to .bmp and it'll be fine.

[davehall]

QUOTE

With the picture now saved as a bitmap, right click the icon / thumbnail for it and simply change the extension from .bmp to .jpg. The system will say that altering the file extension may cause the file to not work, but it *should* be ok. If not, put it back to .bmp and it'll be fine.

Renaming sometimes works, but not usually. Open MS Paint, paste the copied image and then save as a .jpg.

[Blatman]

Yup, that works too...

Renaming can be a problem if your PC is set up to keep the file extension hidden, so sometimes even right clicking the image doesn't display the file extension...

[Nic Ayre]

Try this

Turn attachment previewers on or off

Attachment previewers that come with the 2007 Office release are on by default. If you don't want to use some or any of the attachment previewers, follow these steps to turn them off.

In Outlook, on the Tools menu, click Trust Center, and then click Attachment Handling.

Do one of the following:

To turn off all attachment previewers, click Turn off Attachment Preview.

To turn off a specific attachment previewer, click Attachment and Document Previewers, clear the check box for a previewer you want to turn off, and then click OK.

To turn them on, click to select the Turn off Attachment Preview or specific attachment previewer options.

Found it in the Help section  

[Nick PC]

Try this

Turn attachment previewers on or off

Attachment previewers that come with the 2007 Office release are on by default. If you don't want to use some or any of the attachment previewers, follow these steps to turn them off.

In Outlook, on the Tools menu, click Trust Center, and then click Attachment Handling.

Do one of the following:

To turn off all attachment previewers, click Turn off Attachment Preview.

To turn off a specific attachment previewer, click Attachment and Document Previewers, clear the check box for a previewer you want to turn off, and then click OK.

To turn them on, click to select the Turn off Attachment Preview or specific attachment previewer options.

Found it in the Help section  

Sounds like a Do a search reply

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

Big thanks to Matt for helping sort this out and for those that also have the problem the answer is:-

Send it to another e-mail address without Outlook, ie Hotmail, worked a treat. Another Microsoft quirk solved

[matt_c]

Big thanks to Matt for helping sort this out and for those that also have the problem the answer is:-

Send it to another e-mail address without Outlook, ie Hotmail, worked a treat. Another Microsoft quirk solved

No Problem.

When things calm down a bit work wise I'll see if we can get to the true root of the issue.

Personally I've always found Outlook a little cumbersome for me and Outlook Express gives me all that I need from an Email application. I am fairly confident that the issue you have is exclusive to your version of Outlook.

Matt