Irene I do not use Omnipage to scan my photographs. I use my scanner. In any case, given that you scan thepicture correctly and when you save it, the fact that it is a photograph, a jpg, bmp or whatever, I am wondering where you are looking to locate it. This puzzled me very much in the beginning when I started doing this too. Could not understand where my photograph was gone to because I knew I had saved it. I found it in My Pictures rather than in My Documents. Hope that helps. If you still cannot find it there, then why not go to Search, your computer's facility to locate a file. You can do this by going to the Start Menu at the desktop and then arrow up to Search. Put in the name of your file in the relevant edit field and then click or press enter on the Search button and see what it comes up with. If the file is there on your computer then it will show up and its location too. When you go to Outlook Express to add an attachment, it sounds like you are taking the correct approach there. Well try this for starters anyway Irene. Come back to the list if necessary Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Irene To: vip Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 12:14 PM Subject: [vip_students] Attachments Hi, I am Irene, mailing from Whitley Bay in North East England. This is the first time I have managed to pluck up the courage to ask for help as you all seem so much more clued up than me so please forgive me for what you probably think is a simple plea for help. I want to scan a photograph and send it as an attachment. This is what I do but it won't work so I am doing something wrong. I go to omnipage, scan the document and enter. I then say yes to save document and give it a name. I then quit and go to outlook express, select recipient, enter and do message. Next I do f10 i for insert, and enter on file attachment. I then type name of file and enter but I am told no such file exists. I hope you know what I am talking about and that you can help. Many thanks. Irene Maloney. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1613 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message