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by budharemza

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Is there a way to have attachments in Outlook 2000 or Outlook Web Access to open automatically when opening an email?

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by rob1150

No. There is not. Reason being, think is someone sent you an email with a virus infected attachment. If the attachement opened right when you viewed the email, you would be infected with the virus before you even had a change to see the what the attachment was.

by budharemza

I have heard that it is possible. It may be done other than through an attachment. The main idea is to have the document already visible when opening an email.

by budharemza

I have heard that when someone opens an email that the attached file opens such as an Acrobat Reader doc and a Word doc. Is there a way to include an attachment that is already open in an email using Outlook or Outlook Web Access?

by sgt_shultz

i don't think there is a built-in configuration option to have attachements open automatically but i bet you could write some visual basic to do it. check out the help for visual basic from outlook...

by dcso580

If you must, open Outlook. Click tools, options, then the security tab. Uncheck the "Do not allow attatchments to be saved or opened....". This was a security update to outlook.

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