Reading Messages and Opening Attachments

When you start Outlook, any new messages on your e-mail server are displayed in your Inbox. With Outlook, you can view and read your messages in several ways:

  • You can scan for your most important messages by using AutoPreview, which displays the first three lines of each message in your Inbox.

  • You can read a message without opening it by viewing it in the Reading Pane.

  • You can open the message in its own window for easier reading by double-clicking the message in the Inbox.

E-mail messages can contain many types of files as attachments. For example, a colleague might send a Microsoft Word document to you by attaching it to an e-mail message. You can open these files from the Reading Pane or from an open message. ...

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