Microsoft KB Archive/324206

= OL2000: Attachment Becomes Embedded Inline Object When You Copy an Attachment from an RTF Message to an HTML Message =

Article ID: 324206

Article Last Modified on 8/15/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q324206



SYMPTOMS
When you copy an attachment from a Rich Text Format (RTF) message to a Microsoft WordMail (HTML) message, Outlook 2000 may add the attachment to the message as an inline embedded object instead of an attachment object. The recipient of the message may not be able to open the attachment.



CAUSE
This behavior may occur if you either copy and paste or drag an attachment to a WordMail (HTML) message, because WordMail automatically inserts the item as an embedded OLE object instead of as an attachment.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, use the following procedure to paste the attachment to the WordMail message as an attachment object:


 * 1) Open the RTF message, and then select the attachment that you want to copy.
 * 2) On the Edit menu, click Copy.
 * 3) Open the WordMail message.
 * 4) On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
 * 5) Click Files, and then click OK.

This procedure adds the attachment to the Attach box. When you send the message, the recipients can open the attachment.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Outlook 2000.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Outlook 2002.

Additional query words: linking embedding OL2K e-mail editor

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB324206

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