Clever Outlook and attachments locations

[Stephen Russell]

Hi all,

We had a user ask us today to configure his new PC the way his notebook
works. He said that after he saves a file in a program like word, he can
the go into Outlook, click on the "Attach File" icon and the dialogue box
goes to the directory of the document he just saved. Of course I just
laughed and said that Outlook isn't that clever!!! So he showed me - saved
a document in a directory I told him and then created a new email, clicked
"Aattach File" and it opened to that folder ready to attach the newly saved
file!!!

Just wondering if anyone else has ever noticed this and more importantly -
how do you configure Outlook to be this clever????

Cheers,

Stephen

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We had a user ask us today to configure his new PC the way his

notebook works. He said that after he saves a file in a program like
word, he can the go into Outlook, click on the "Attach File" icon and
the dialogue box goes to the directory of the document he just saved.
Of course I just laughed and said that Outlook isn't that clever!!!
So he showed me - saved a document in a directory I told him and then
created a new email, clicked "Aattach File" and it opened to that
folder ready to attach the newly saved file!!!

Just wondering if anyone else has ever noticed this and more
importantly - how do you configure Outlook to be this clever????

It isn't that Outlook is particularly clever, it's that Outlook and Word
use the same common file dialog. The only reasons I would think that it
wasn't working properly is that Word and Outlook are different versions,
or that it's 2007 and you have a suite that didn't come with Outlook and
Outlook installed after the fact, which tends to cause some weird effects.

If you go from Word to Excel, do you see the same thing, or do those match
up directories?

What version of Office? What version of Windows?

 

[Stephen Russell]

Hi f.h.

I cannot confirm at the moment if it works with other office programs as
well - but when I can get access again I will try. The system that it is
working on is Office 2003 Pro - so everything was installed at the same
time. The PC has Office 2007 Pro - so again Word and Outlook were installed
at the same time. Both systems are running XP SP2. I have also tried with
my Off2007 and the Attach File just goes to the same location each time. I
vaguely remember setting it when I first installed Office 2007 but now can't
find where. This probably hasn't helped much but I will get back once I can
test the matching of directories from different programs other than just
Word and Outlook.

Cheers, Stephen

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We had a user ask us today to configure his new PC the way his

I cannot confirm at the moment if it works with other office programs
as well - but when I can get access again I will try. The system that
it is working on is Office 2003 Pro - so everything was installed at
the same time. The PC has Office 2007 Pro - so again Word and Outlook
were installed at the same time. Both systems are running XP SP2. I
have also tried with my Off2007 and the Attach File just goes to the
same location each time. I vaguely remember setting it when I first
installed Office 2007 but now can't find where. This probably hasn't
helped much but I will get back once I can test the matching of
directories from different programs other than just Word and Outlook.

First thing I would verify is that it works across office in general If
it does, try starting Outlook in safe mode to see if that alleviates the
problem, perhaps an add-in is causing the feature not to work.

I am pretty sure that there isn't a setting to set anywhere.