Reply with attachment included

Aloha Katerina,

I remember using this feature before. Why was it taken out?

This is ridiculous and should be a very simple software feature to implement.

My organization (100+ employees) would also love this option. I can't tell you the HOURS I waste on a monthly basis tracking down attachments that were not included in a reply and then later that reply is forwarded to me. Obviously because I'm farther down the chain the attachment is gone, and I have to email the originator to send the attachment so I can address the issue in the email.

This request is decades old. With all the changes to Outlook over those decades and all the inefficiencies added to MS Office/Windows one would think that the programmers would jump on this issue as it gives them a huge feather in their cap to finally give the masses what they want. FYI by inefficiencies I mean what used to take one click now takes 2, what took 2 now takes 3-4 and so on.

Lotus Notes has this feature and Outlook does not. Must be bizarro world.

How is it feasible to forward with attachment and not feasible to reply with attachment? From the user point of view all forwarding does is open a new email with the attachment already attached. From my ignorant perspective it seems pretty straight forward to use the same process as forwarding except add the emails from the original message.