How to Open Multiple Attachments to an E-Mail

[Bob44TheCat]

Hi All,

A niggling little query, I'm probably missing the extremely obvious, but I haven't been able to find anything on this in numerous searches:

Outlook 2000, SP3. I often get several Excel spreadsheets sent to me attached to one e-mail. I would like to open them all at one time, i.e. something like 'Select All', 'Open' - but I can't find a way to do this. I don't necessarily want to save them all to the same location, so 'File', 'Save Attachments' doesn't help here.

Maybe I'm just being lazy, but I'm getting fed up with opening one file, switching back to Outlook, double-clicking the next file, etc.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Bob.

 

[gizmo1973]

From the open e-mail left click one attachement then hold down Ctrl and left click the next and so on and so forth until all attachements are highlighted, then right click open. This will then open all highlighted attachments.


Or

Left click and selcect them by moving over then right click open

Regards, Phil.

I'm here beacause I LOOK busy

"Where there's blame there's DPlank"

 

[Bob44TheCat]

Hi Phil,
Thanks for the quick reply, but here's the weird thing - I'd tried that (and just checked it again), but when I "left click one attachement then hold down Ctrl and left click the next" - the focus moves to the second attachment and doesn't remain on the first, so I've still only got one attachment selected. The only way I can find to select all attachments is to left-click the first, hold down Shift, then left-click the last. BUT then right-click doesn't give me the option to Open.
Still stumped, I'm afraid...
Cheers,

Bob.

 

[gizmo1973]

Ah, something wrong there then as I'm on 2000 SP3 and that definatley works for me!!!
Must be something in your settings as far as I was aware my way should work

Regards, Phil.

I'm here beacause I LOOK busy

"Where there's blame there's DPlank"

 

[Bob44TheCat]

Hi Phil,
Right, looks like it's time for our Desktop Support to earn their money! Thanks for confirming that - I thought the functionality should be there.

Cheers,

Bob.

 

[djbourne]

Hi Bob44

If you find the answer could you post it here as I have the same problem.

Cheers
DJ

 

[Bob44TheCat]

Hi DJ,

Yes, of course (I'm glad it's not just me!). Watch this space.

Bob.

 

[Bob44TheCat]

Much as I hate being beaten (don't we all?), I'm going to have to give up on this. Our desktop support can't find anything to set (or reset) to allow this.
MS Knowledgebase and Support sites have a few references that suggest this should be possible, even standard, under Outlook 2000 - backing up Phil's posts here - but the functionality has been removed from Outlook 2003. But there's nothing to explain why some can do it in O/L 2000 and some can't....
If I ever find an answer I'll come back and update.
Cheers,

Bob.