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
    2024-02-27T11:41:16+00:00

    I get what you're saying. But MS is asking us to use our right hand to scratch the left ear. Why can't the old Save As be reinstated? Why change a feature that worked so well? Why fix something that ain't broke? Or, as folks are saying is it that they no longer care?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-27T21:44:22+00:00

    HERE's THE TEMPORARY FIX.

    1. Click on the attachment to Preview.
    2. Click the Print icon at the top-left of Preview.
    3. For Printer, select Microsoft Print to PDF.
    4. Click Print, a "Save As" window pops up.
    5. Print/ Save in the desired location.

    You're Welcome.

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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T10:39:09+00:00

    I am also missing this setting. It would be really good, if Outlook would be able to download the attachments as "Save as", and not automatically to the "Downloads" folder.
    I've really enjoyed to use the previous version of Outlook, in which the attachment's download was working as "Save as".

    Please set this again available.

    Thank you in advance.

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