Chapter 19. Working with Attachments

Many email messages exist solely for the purpose of transmitting a file. Appointments, tasks, journal entries, and contacts also can contain attachments, links to files on the network, and even other Outlook items. Inserting attachments and extracting attachments and their content are key Outlook programming tasks that can help you create highly functional Outlook items and process incoming data.

Highlights of this chapter include discussions of the following:

  • What different types of attachments an Outlook item may contain

  • Why you need to save an attachment as a file before you can access its content

  • How to add a file or Outlook item as an embedded attachment or a link

  • How to import any kind of embedded Outlook ...

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