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OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 7: Forwarding Messages

Article ID: 310488

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Outlook 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q310488

SUMMARY

The information covered in this article is provided by: Microsoft Press.

This article is part 7 of a series of thirteen articles that explain how to use Outlook 2000 to communicate through e-mail. To view the other articles in this series, please see the "Additional Resources" section later in this article.

This information is an excerpt from the Quick Course in Microsoft Outlook 2000 book, Chapter 3: "Communicating with E-Mail".

MORE INFORMATION

Forwarding Messages

If you receive a message that you think will be of interest to a colleague, you can easily forward the message with just a few mouse clicks. Follow these steps to try it:

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The Forward button

1. With the Letter Sent To Al Pine message still displayed in its window, click the Forward button on the toolbar to display the Message window.
   

[GRAPHIC: Picture of forwarded message ] This time only the Subject edit box is filled in. Again, the original message appears below the insertion point, but the attachment icon is intact, indicating that the attachment will be sent as part of the forwarded message.

1. For demonstration purposes, type your own e-mail address in the To box and click the Send button. Outlook changes the note in the original Message window to indicate that you forwarded the message.
2. To view the two new messages, close the Message window and if necessary, click the Send/Receive button.
   

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The arrow on the envelope icon of the original Al Pine message tells you that you have forwarded this message.

1. Open both new messages to check them out.

Saving messages and attachments

To save a message for use in another program, select the message in the Inbox window, choose Save As from the File menu, navigate to the desired storage location, name the file, designate the file type, and click Save. You can save e-mail messages as RTF (RichText Format), Text Only, Outlook Template, or Message Format. (The Outlook Template file type allows you to use the file as a template for other Outlook messages. The Message Format file type is associated with Outlook, which opens the file if you double-click its filename.) To save an attachment to an e-mail message as a separate file, open the message, choose Save Attachments from the File menu, select the attachment's filename, and then designate the storage location for the file. (You can also right-click the attachment icon and choose Save As from the shortcut menu; or you can click the paper clip icon at the right end of the preview pane's title bar, select the file to open it in the appropriate application, and then save it in the usual way.) To save an attachment without opening the message, simply select the message header in the workspace and choose Save Attachments from the File menu.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

307377 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 1: Using the Inbox

310484 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 2: Composing Messages

310485 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 3: Addressing Messages Quickly

310486 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 4: Attaching Files to Messages

310491 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 5: Sending and Retrieving Messages

310487 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 6: Replying to Messages

310489 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 8: Deleting Messages

307438 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 9: Organizing Messages

310580 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 11: Using Folders

310581 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 12: Moving Messages

310582 OL2000: Communicating with E-Mail: Part 13: Organizing Messages with the Rules Wizard

REFERENCES

The information in this article is an excerpt from the Quick Course in Microsoft Outlook 2000 book, published by Microsoft Press.

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Learn More About Quick Course in Microsoft Outlook 2000

For more information about this publication and other Microsoft Press titles, see http://mspress.microsoft.com.

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