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When viewing an Outlook attachment, I want the message I was working on to open.
After I open an Excel or Word attachment in Outlook, Windows wants to show me another Excel or Word document in stead of reverting to the Outlook message I am trying to edit. How do I make it so the original message comes back instead of bringing up an unrelated Excel or Word documents first? I know I can just click on the icon but Windows didn't use to have this time killing flaw.
Lionel MM
Not quite sure I know what you mean: are you saying you open up an email, that email as an attachment; you then open the attachment (Word or Excel attachment) and you then close the attachment and instead of Word and Excel closing they remain open and you have to tab over to the email with the attachments? If this is what you mean then I did some testing with Outlook 2007 and it would not let me open word attachments--it made me save them to disk first. It also would not let me preview the file. What version of Outlook are you using?
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Outlook 2007, SP3 part of MS Office Pro Plus.
I open an attachment and if there is another of the same type (Word, Excel) running in the background, it pops to the foreground when I close an attachment of the same type. It's like Windows wants to put up everything Word or Excel since a Word or Excel document/file was just open.
I'm sorry you can't open attachments. No idea what that's all about.
I open an attachment and if there is another of the same type (Word, Excel) running in the background, it pops to the foreground when I close an attachment of the same type. It's like Windows wants to put up everything Word or Excel since a Word or Excel document/file was just open.
I'm sorry you can't open attachments. No idea what that's all about.
TAOSA-Admin--
Are you sure the attachment is opening in Outlook rather than in Work or Excel?
If the attachment is opening in a different program than Outlook, you should be able to click the Outlook icon on the Taskbar to get back to the Outlook message.
Are you sure the attachment is opening in Outlook rather than in Work or Excel?
If the attachment is opening in a different program than Outlook, you should be able to click the Outlook icon on the Taskbar to get back to the Outlook message.
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That did the trick for Excel but Word doesn't have the same DDE option to select/deselect.