I hate forgetting to attach files to emails
This was originally published: 29 September 2011Read more posts in category of Opinion
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One of my pet hates is forgetting to attach a file when I’ve written a beautifully-worded email referring a whole bunch of people to the attached report.
Um, what report? D’oh!
I wish Outlook could take a leaf out of Thunderbird’s book. Thunderbird is an email client that I use at home and every time I type “attach”, “attachment”, “attached” or similar, it pops up an alert:
Which is just fabulous for those forgetful moments.
A Microsoft developer has created the Forgotten Attachment Detector, which is a plugin for Outlook that is complicated to install (I tried it on Office 2007/Windows XP and Office 2010 Windows 7) and doesn’t seem to work in any scenario I’ve tried.
Dear Microsoft
Please make the Forgotten Attachment Detector a standard feature in Outlook.
Love,
Outlook users who forget to attach emails
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Gmail also reminds you about attachments, I love it! It has saved me more times than I can remember
you’re so right Christina – how good is Gmail? I’d be lost without it!
Thanks for commenting x
You’re right about the Outlook forgotten attachment detector. Doesn’t work for me either. Looks like it did work in the original release back in ’09 but is now licensed for non-commercial use only and broken. Too bad. It does need to be a standard feature.