Outlook Mail: Save Multiple Mail Attachment Files Simultaneously

Do you sometimes receive email messages that contain more than one attachment? If you have, you probably saved them one at a time, which works well enough when getting these kinds of messages is infrequent. But if you receive a lot of messages with multiple attachments, or they're rare, but when they come they contain a lot of attachments, you might be interested to know that there's a way to download attachment files en masse instead of one at a time. It's not hard to do this, but the process varies a little bit depending on whether you are using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. What follows are the steps for each version of Outlook. To minimize the chance for confusion, there are separate instruction sets for each version of Outlook.

How to Save More than One Mail Attachment at Once in Outlook 2003

Follow these steps to save more than one mail attachment at a time when working with Outlook 2003.

1. Open the message containing the attachments you want to save.
2. Next, click File. In the menu that appears, click Save Attachments.
3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, one or more attachments that you want to save, then click OK.
4. In the Save File dialog box that appears, navigate to the folder that you want to save the attachments in and click OK to save them.

Saving Multiple Mail Attachments at a Time in Outlook 2007

Follow these steps to save more than one mail attachment at a time when working with Outlook 2007.

1. Select and open the message containing the attachments you want to save.
2. Click Other Actions in the Actions panel of the Ribbon. Then click Save Attachments.
3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, one or more attachments that you want to save, then click OK.
4. A standard file save dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder that you want to save the attachments in. Click click OK to save them.

    

That's it. Once you complete all 4 steps of the procedure, the attachments are safely saved in the folder you chose. I hope that you will find these procedures to be useful when you're working with attachments. And just so you know, there are a lot more tips where these came from.

The Living With Outlook website has an illustrated version of these multiple mail attachment instructions, along with quite literally hundreds more tips and tricks for making dealing with Outlook more pleasant. You're invited to come and check out the site. Here's a link to a good starting point for someone dealing with lots of email: http://www.living-with-outlook.com/outlook-mail-tips.html