How do I make the Attachment area of my MS 2021 Outlook emails smaller?

Dear @Susan Ferriola,

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Based on your description, the attachment section in Outlook 2021 takes up most of the message window, leaving very little space for the email body. you wonder there is a way to reduce the size of the attachment area and display attachments in a more compact view.

Unfortunately, no built-in setting in Outlook 2021 to manually resize or reduce the height of the attachment area. Outlook displays attachments as attachment cards, and the size of this section is largely controlled by the application's interface design rather than a user-configurable option.

You can, however, try the following workarounds as:

• Check Windows Display Scaling (Settings > System > Display). If the scaling is set to 150%, 175%, or higher, reducing it to 100% or 125% may make Outlook display the attachment cards more compactly.

If the attachment area continues to affect your workflow and none of the workarounds help, you may wish to submit feedback to Microsoft through File > Feedback > Send a Suggestion or submit feedback through the Microsoft Ideas Community at Ideas · Community. User feedback helps the product team understand how Outlook's interface impacts usability and may be considered in future updates. The higher votes, the more attention the related team will pay on. And a lot of the features are developed and improved based on customer feedback.  

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