Attachements Should Move WITH an Email Dragged to Calendar

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Kevin - 26 May 2005 16:40 GMT

I love Outlook's ability to drag any item from one feature to another. I.e.
I get an email with important information for a meeting I have in the future.
I drag a copy of that email to calendar & an appointment is automatically
created with the text of the email included in the "notes" section of the
appointment, however, any attachments that were in that email are not
included carried over to the appointment, only the text of the email. I can
save the attachement & reattach it to that appointment, however, why can't
outlook automatically keep the attachment when I drag the email to calendar?
Why the unnecessary steps?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 26 May 2005 17:03 GMT

if you right click and drag, do you have the option of creating an item with
an attachment? This would preserve the attachment on the email message you
are dragging.

When you just drag the email, it adds the body of the message in the Notes
field and only the text portion is used, which causes the attachments to
drop. If you want both the text portion as you have now and the attachment,
while the new item is still open, either drag the message to it or select
just the attachment and drag it. Dragging the attachment takes a bit of
practice (especially in Ol2003), but it works great once you get the hang of
it.

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>I love Outlook's ability to drag any item from one feature to another.
>I.e.
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Dain Kistner - 26 Oct 2005 16:12 GMT

That was very useful; however, I have recently upgraded to 2003 and the
default 'left-click-and-drag' behavior is now putting ONLY the heading into
in the Notes field, NOT the body of the message. Is there a setting I
haven't been able to find that will change this default behavior?

Dain Kistner
SVP, CIO
Pitcairn Financial Group
www.pitcairn.com

> if you right click and drag, do you have the option of creating an item with
> an attachment? This would preserve the attachment on the email message you
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> practice (especially in Ol2003), but it works great once you get the hang of
> it.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 26 Oct 2005 16:49 GMT

What type of mail account and are you using the old ANSI format or newer
Unicode or one of each?

Do you have the latest patches for office installed?

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> That was very useful; however, I have recently upgraded to 2003 and the
> default 'left-click-and-drag' behavior is now putting ONLY the heading
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Dain Kistner - 26 Oct 2005 17:07 GMT

Thanks for the prompt response!

The Mail account is Exchange (2003). As to the formatting question...I'm
not sure. Now that I look into it more deeply - I get everything on Plain
Text or RTF messages; it's only the HTML format messages that don't fully
transfer the body content on a drag and drop. I get the same results whether
I left-click-and-drag or right-click and drag selecting 'Copy here as
Appointment with Text'.

-Dain

> What type of mail account and are you using the old ANSI format or newer
> Unicode or one of each?
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