How can i drag an attachment from Outlook mail into an application

[mjkahn]

I just switched from an old Outook Express to Outlook 2003. In Outlook
Express, while I was reading an email message, I could drag an attachment
directly from the message and drop it into another application. (For example,
if the message contained a JPG, I could drag it from the email and drop it
into a drawing program.) This doesn't seem to work in Outlook--I have to
manually save the attachment to a temp file and then open that file from the
other program. Is there any way to get this to work?

Also, in Outlook Express, if a message contained more than one attachment,
they were listed on separate lines. Outlook seems to separate the filenames
with semi-colons, which makes it more difficult visually to find one
attachment among many in messages that have many. Is there a way to get
Outlook to display the attachment filenames on separate lines when I'm
reading a message?

Thank you!

MJ.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I just switched from an old Outook Express to Outlook 2003. In Outlook
Express, while I was reading an email message, I could drag an
attachment directly from the message and drop it into another
application. (For example, if the message contained a JPG, I could
drag it from the email and drop it into a drawing program.) This
doesn't seem to work in Outlook--

True statement.

I have to manually save the
attachment to a temp file and then open that file from the other
program. Is there any way to get this to work?

I haven't been able.

Also, in Outlook Express, if a message contained more than one
attachment, they were listed on separate lines. Outlook seems to
separate the filenames with semi-colons, which makes it more
difficult visually to find one attachment among many in messages that
have many. Is there a way to get Outlook to display the attachment
filenames on separate lines when I'm reading a message?

I don't believe this is configurable.