How do I remove or save an email attachment?

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After reading this article students, faculty, and staff should be able to:

  • Save or remove an email attachment on any of the following email clients:
    • Outlook for Windows
    • Outlook for Mac
    • Apple Mail

Outlook for Windows

Save an attachment

  1. Select email message whose attachments you would like to save/remove.
  2. To save a single attachment from a message:
  3. Click on the attachment in the Reading Pane or the open message.
  4. On the Attachments tab, in the Actions group, click Save As. You can also right-click the attachment, and then click Save As.
  5. Click a folder location, and then click Save.
Note:For RTF format attachments, you must right-click the attachment, and then click Save As.

  1. To save all attachments from a message:
  2. In the Reading Pane or the open message, click an attachment.
  3. On the Attachments tab, in the Actions group, click Save All Attachments.
  4.  In the Save All Attachments dialog box, click OK.
  5.  Click a folder location, and then click OK.
Note: For RTF format attachments, you must navigate to File > Save Attachments and then click OK.

 

Remove attachments

  1. To remove a single attachment:
  2. Select the attachment you want to remove.
  3. Click Remove Attachment.
  4. In the warning dialog box, click the Remove Attachment.
  5. To remove multiple attachments:
  6. Click Select All.
  7. Click Remove Attachment.
  8. In the warning dialog box, click the Remove Attachments.

 

Outlook for Mac

Save an attachment

  1. Select email message whose attachments you would like to save/remove.
  2. To save a single attachment from a message:
  3. Click on the v symbol next to the attachment.
  4. Click Save As.
  5. Click a folder location, and then click Save.
  6. To save all attachments from a message:
  7. Click Download All.
  8. Click a folder location, and then click OK. 

Remove attachments

  1. To remove a single attachment:
  2. Click on the v symbol next to the attachment.
  3. Click Remove.
  4. Click Delete.
  5. To remove multiple attachments:
  6. Navigate to Message > Attachments > Remove All.
  7. Click Delete.

 

Apple Mail

Save an attachment

  1. Open Apple Mail or Outlook for Mac.
  2. Locate the email that you wish to download the attachment from and open it.
  3. To save a single attachment:
  4. Right-click the attachment you want to save and select Save Attachment.
  5. Choose a folder and click Save.
  6.  To save multiple attachments:
  7. Click File, choose Save Attachments…
  8. Select a destination where to save the attachment and choose Save.
Note: In Apple Mail, you can only remove all attachments in an email not individual attachments.

Remove Attachments

  1. Click Message and choose Remove Attachments.

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Last Modified: 5/25/2017