Outlook Low Vision: Email Save Attachment

Vikki: Hi, I'm Vikki Vaughan and today we'll explore opening and saving email attachments in Microsoft Outlook. This workshop is intended for users with low vision. If you use a screen reading program, be sure to check out our screen reading version of this workshop.

If you've ever received an email with something that looked like extra files tagging along, you might have wondered what in the world do I do with these. If so, you've entered the world of email attachments. Think of attachments as gifts which are well, attached to an email. They take the form of photos, videos or text documents which can be opened and saved to our computer.

Let's dive into our inbox and have a look at email attachments. My inbox shows that I have a recent email from Jane and it appears to be a response to my request for a recipe. We have two places we can look to find out if an email has an attachment. Here in our item list we see that in addition to her name and the subject of the email, Jane's email also shows a paperclip icon. This tells us that it has at least one attachment.

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