Do you sometimes receive email messages that contain more than one attachment? If so, you probably saved them one at a time, which works well enough. But if you receive a lot of messages with multiple attachments, or occasional messages with lots of attachments, I’m pleased to tell you that there’s a way to download and save multiple attachments at the same time. It’s actually easy to do, but the process differs slightly depending on whether you are using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. What follows are the steps for each version of Outlook. To minimize the chance for confusion, there are separate instruction sets for each version of Outlook.

Saving More than One Mail Attachment at Once in Outlook 2003

These are the steps to follow when you want to save more than one mail attachment at a time when you’re using Outlook 2003.

1. Select and open the message containing the attachments you want to save.
2. Next, click File. In the menu that appears, click Save Attachments.
3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, one or more attachments that you want to save, then click OK.
4. A standard file save dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder where you want to save the attachments. Click click OK to save them.

Saving More than One Mail Attachment at a Time in Outlook 2007

Follow this procedure to save more than one mail attachment at a time when working with Outlook 2007.

1. Select and open the message that contains the attachments.
2. Click Other Actions, then Save Attachments in the Actions panel of the Ribbon.
3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, one or more attachments that you want to save, then click OK.
4. A standard file save dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder that you want to save the attachments in and click OK to save them.

    

That’s all there is to it. Once you complete all 4 steps of the procedure, the attachments are safely saved in the folder you chose. I hope that you’ll find these procedures to be useful in your daily interactions with Outlook. And just so you know, there are many more cool and useful tips where these came from.

The Living With Outlook website includes an illustrated version of these multiple mail attachment instructions, along with quite literally hundreds more tips and tricks for making your days with Outlook faster, easier, and more fun. Please come and check out the site. Here’s a good starting page for someone dealing with lots of email: http://www.living-with-outlook.com/outlook-mail-tips.html

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