620 Chapter 21 Send and Receive E-Mail Messages
You can view message attachments in several ways:
● You can preview certain types of attachments (including Excel spreadsheets,
PowerPoint slideshows, Word documents, and Portable Document Format (PDF)
files) directly in the Reading Pane by clicking the attachment in the message
header.
When you click the attachment, the message text is replaced by a preview of
the attachment contents, and the Attachments contextual tab appears on the
ribbon.Selected attachment
From the Attachments tab, you can work with the attachment or toggle between the message
content and attachment preview.Tip You can turn off the Attachment Preview feature from the Attachment Handling
page of the Trust Center window, which you open from the Outlook Options dialog box.
● You can open the attachment from the Reading Pane or from an open message
window by double-clicking the attachment in the message header.
● You can save the attachment to your hard disk and open it from there. This strategy
is recommended if you suspect an attachment might contain a virus because you can
scan the file for viruses before opening it (provided that you have a virus scanning
program installed).
See Also For information about protecting your computer from viruses, refer to
Windows 7 Step by Step (Microsoft Press, 2009) or Windows Vista Step by Step, (Microsoft
Press, 2007), both by Joan Lambert Preppernau and Joyce Cox.