How can I open an attachment without downloading it on new Outlook?

Anonymous
2023-10-30T17:21:59+00:00

Before I switched to new outlook, I was able to double click on attachments and they would open to their specific apps. Ex. If it was a PDF it would open with Acrobat; If it was a word doc, it would open with word. Now I have to click the download button and it default saves to my downloads folder instead of being put where I want it in the beginning. I also can't drag attachments from an email to the specific folder I want to save it to on my desktop. I have to download and then move it from my downloads folder.

I know it's probably just a new process I'll have to get used to, but hey maybe someone knows a hack!

Thank you in advance :)

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-22T00:16:08+00:00

    I dont have an option to open in PDF though I have a licensed program

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-30T15:31:36+00:00

    Right clicking on the attachment gives me only 2 choices, 'Save to Onedrive' and 'Copy'. Actually is only one choice, because 'Copy' does nothing. Given also the lack of answer from MS here for such a long time, I suspect that the "new" Outlook is abandoned and it will soon vanish, we 've seen this before and after some time a new "new" Outlook will appear. Back to the old Outlook.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-01T19:43:10+00:00

    This is ridiculous. I'm switching back to old Outlook. I tried...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-14T17:31:57+00:00

    It's been eight months and this behavior persists. Can we at least have a setting to turn this feature off? After downloading we don't even get a prompt to jump to the folder so it requires yet another manual step to simply open an attachment with the default application - how is this user friendly?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-30T10:27:24+00:00

    I'm switching to linux now...

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