Richard, I went back through a lot of my old emails, using outlook 2003, and every one which had an attachment, it was shown in the context menu choice you mention.
My only guess is to mention again, that outlook doesn't allow you to save certain file types (.exe, .lnk, .bat, etc), even though they were sent as an attachment and you received the message, and your message will tell you that you do have an attachment, if it's one of these restricted file extensions, outlook won't let you save it or open it. I'm guessing that's what you are encountering. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Petty, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:53 PM To: Chip Orange; [email protected] Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 Attachments Not Appearing on Context Menu What I'm referring to is this. When viewing the list of unopened messages, if there's an attachment, one can open the context menu, then hit H for attachment and see a list of the attachments. On some e-mails, this doesn't work. Again, it's only from some senders. Richard Petty ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization [email protected] (E-Mail) -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 Attachments Not Appearing on Context Menu Richard, Do you mean that sometimes you will press the alt-7 hotkey to get positioned in the list of attachments, and hear that one or more attachments are present, but when you invoke the context menu you are not getting the "save as" and other choices you would expect for an attachment? If that's it, I too have seen that the alt-7 hotkey doesn't always get you positioned just right so that context menus will work. when that happens, I just use the left/right arrows to move around the attachment(s) listed, and this seems to fix the positioning problem, and the context menu will then work. Also, just in case you don't know this, some types of attachments are blocked by outlook (such as .exe files) so that you simply cannot get to them to save them. This is a security measure of outlook. hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: Petty, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:46 AM To: meadowlark77; Darren Harris Cc: [email protected] Subject: Outlook 2003 Attachments Not Appearing on Context Menu Sometimes the attachments that accompany an e-mail message do not display on the context menu. The Outlook Advanced app makes it easier to deal with these messages by providing a way to get to the attachments without using the mouse cursor, which saves time. Still, it is often more convenient to simply use the context menu to get to an attachment without opening the message. This occurs with messages from some senders, but not others. I have done a Google search on this and find nothing, so am wondering if this could somehow be a Window Eyes issue, although it doesn't make much sense to me that it would be. Is anyone else having this problem? Have you found a solution? For the GW team, could this be a WE issue? Richard Petty ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization [email protected] (E-Mail) If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
