No 'SAVE AS' option for attachments in new Outlook desktop app

Anonymous
2023-05-08T09:29:48+00:00

Dear All,

Outlook offered to switch my application to the new Outlook version (there is a switch item below the window close button).

It looks like the in-browser version and works better than the former, but it has a missing option in the attachments drop-down menu, called 'save as'.

We get a lot of documents in our emails, which should be saved in different projects' locations on a local hard drive. The in-browser version and the former desktop app have this option but this new app does not.

How can I add this function back again?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

István

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-05T18:18:27+00:00

    unfortunately there has been no updates or changes to how Outlook manages attachments so yes, this is currently a place to vent. some people give us their workaround but i think we're all savvy enough to have figured that out a long time ago. we don't need anyone to give us a temporary fix. we'd like for MS to just give us a basic function of saving a document to the location of our choice. something that's been part of Outlook since it was created. right now we have the choice to stay on the current version but that won't last and we'll soon be forced to change and learn to live with what we're given. One Outlook is standard on Windows 11 beginning of 2024. #defeated

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-05T18:00:54+00:00

    I can see this was reported almost a year ago, but the New Outlook was just forced on my company and the problem continues. Is there any plans to address this or is this chat just to vent?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-29T20:00:56+00:00

    I'm also having this problem. New Outlook looks great and has some improvements over Original Outlook, but being unable to save files to my desktop makes it useless.

    I used to be able to drag and drop attachments from email, too, and I'm not able to do that either.

    I'm going back to Original Outlook. I'm very disappointed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-27T21:52:51+00:00

    I don't want a Temporary Fix. I want the software to work in all the ways it did for years. "New Outlook" is simply "Web Outlook on the Desktop" - and it's terrible.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-09T20:36:19+00:00

    How is this still not fixed? It is 9/9/2023. This is not a difficult feature to add. Every user who saves an attachment wants to save to a specific location, how hard is it to understand that? This is a simple code somebody could write in a few minutes. Disappointed with Microsoft yet again! How many employees do you have???

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