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
    2023-11-28T16:51:32+00:00

    Sorry, but this is like using your left hand to scratch your right ear. Its a complicated way of doing something simple that a click on "Save As" will achieve.

    This problem has been discussed for months but MS, it seems, is far too busy to worry about a concern for so many users and which has such a simple solution. Are they suffering from the biggest hangover in hisotry?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-29T22:50:24+00:00

    I hope this will be fixed as soon as possible !

    For PDF documents, I found this trick (it's far from perfect but it helps a bit):

    1. click on the attached file to preview
    2. click somewhere in the pdf
    3. press CTRL + S to save

    Then it open a window to ask you where to save the document.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T17:55:17+00:00

    If you click on the attachment and open the PREVIEW, and then RIGHT-CLICK, the option to SAVE AS is available in the drop-down menu.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T18:04:07+00:00

    I'm definitely not seeing this option. Do you have a screenshot? This option does not exist in the version of Outlook I'm running...

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T19:40:51+00:00

    If you're using the desktop version of the New Outlook, you'll need to click the Open in New Window button (see red arrow), and then you will have the option to right-click to Save As. CTRL+S will also allow you to Save As the document without having to download it.

    If you're using Outlook in the browser, you can just Preview the attachment and RIGHT-CLICK to get the SAVE AS option in the drop-down menu.

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