View, Open, and Save Attachments

Overview

Attachments are files or items. Items include e-mail messages, appointments, contacts, tasks, journal entries, notes, posted items, and documents.) that can be included with an e-mail message. This paper explains how to preview, open, or save attachments that one receives. Attachment Preview, a new feature in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, allows the user to preview some attachment file types without opening them. By default, Microsoft Outlook blocks potentially unsafe attachment files (including .bat, .exe, .vbs, and .js files) that can contain viruses. The user cannot view or access a blocked attachment file, but a list of blocked attachment files appears in the InfoBar at the top of ones message. The user should preview or open attachments from trustworthy sources only.