In Outlook Web Access, how do I work with attachments?

Using Outlook Web Access (OWA), you can send and receive attachments much as you would with many other mail clients. See the instructions below to add and remove attachments from an outgoing email message or to retrieve an attachment from a message in your Inbox.

Attachments with outgoing mail

Adding an attachment

To add an attachment to an outgoing email message, follow these steps:

1. In the outgoing message composition window, click the paper clip icon.
   
   
2. Under "Choose a file to attach:", click the Browse button. Scroll through the directories on your computer to select the file you wish to attach. Click the file's name or icon to select it.
   
   
3. Under "Add the file to the list", click Attach. Under the header "Current file attachments", you will see the file's name.
   
   
4. To return to the message composition window, click Go Back To Message or Close. To send the message, click Send.

Removing a previously added attachment

If you wish to remove a file from the list of added attachments, under "Current File Attachments", select the checkbox next to the name of the file you wish to remove, and then click Remove. To remove multiple attachments at once, select the checkbox for each file you wish to remove, and then click Remove.

Retrieving an attached file

Note: Use caution when opening attachments, especially from senders you do not recognize. Scan all attachments for viruses, even those from trusted sources. At Indiana University, some types of attachments are blocked from your Inbox. For more information, see At IU, what types of attachments are blocked from my email account?

To retrieve a file attached to an email message, follow these steps:

1. After opening the message, click the filename of the attachment you wish to open.
   
   
2. In some browsers, a dialog box will appear with the title Downloading filename.xyz, where filename.xyz is the name of the file in question. Choose from these options:
   
   
   • Open the file: Opens the file using the program OWA associates with the file type. You can change this by clicking Advanced and working with the options there.
   • Save this file to disk: This option allows you to save the file before opening.
   
   
3. Click OK to perform the action you selected; click Cancel to return to the message body.

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