[mso] Re: Opening multiple attachments in Outlook 2003

Hey Paul, Dian here. I don't believe there is a way to open them en masse.
What I would suggest you do, however, is what I do when I have a pile of
attachments. Click File > Save Attachments and save them all off to a
folder. You might even want to create on OL_Temp folder on your desktop to
make it easy to access until you've had time to sort out what you have and
where, if anywhere, the files should really be moved off to?

When you click File > Save Attachments...all the attachments will be saved
in one step to whatever location you specify. If you save them to a clean
folder, with no other docs there now, you can then go through and check them
out individually or even hit Ctrl + A to select them all, right click and
choose OPEN to have them all open at once. Then you can Alt/Tab through the
files, if you prefer.

Hope this helps.


Dian D. Chapman
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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Paul Traynor
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:12 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Opening multiple attachments in Outlook 2003


Good Afternoon Everyone

If anyone has an answer to this I would be very grateful.  I have just been
given Microsoft Office 2003 to use in my new place of work with Windows XP.
To be honest, I found Office 2000 much easier to use with JAWS 6.2.  I've
been encountering all sorts of new problems with JAWS and Office 2003 but
I'll leave that for another day.

Anyway, my current question is, if an e-mail message arrives with about 20
attachments, is there a way to open up all the attachments at once so you
can alt tab round them all without having to go back into your e-mail
message to open each one separately?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Paul.

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