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Learning to Attach Pictures or Files in Outlook Express

You have learned how to insert your picture into the e-mail so it is visible when the email is opened by the receiver.

On this page I'll explain how to attach a file to your outgoing message.

Let's Get Started!

You have your New Mail open and ready to make it ready to send, you know where the file or files are you want to attach to your message to send to the receiver so up top click on the icon labeled Attach:

then the window pops up like this:

Just like before you need to make sure the Look in: drop box is showing the folder location of your file, then click on your file and push Attach.

You can at this point select more than one file by holding down the shift key and choosing another file or repeat the process again until you have all the files showing you wish to attach. They appear like this to show you what you've selected:

You can add as many files as you need to but please keep in mind that too many will add up to a large size e-mail and will be slow sending and receiving. Too big an e-mail file and it may be rejected by the mail server so be aware! A safe attachment total e-mail size is generally under 1000 KB, or 1 MB. Some situations require it to be more, you'll have to experiment and see what happens on your mail servers.

To check to see the total e-mail size your about to send after you have pushed send you can click on your outbox and see the total file size!

Otherwise that's all there is to it to attach files to outgoing e-mail! Play it safe and be sure you run an anti-virus program at all times to be sure your not sending anything contaminated through the e-mail, as well as keeping your system protected. :o)

Next we'll learn how to
add and send "Links" using your e-mail!

~Click here~

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