Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I followed the directions and it worked. But let me share something I tried after I thought about it.
What I did was open the email in question. I then shift tabbed up to the attachments, and used the application key. I selected enter on remove. Then I hit escape, and selected to accept the changes. I think it worked. I have the email exactly the way it is minus the attachments. When you told me I could just delete the attachments before forwarding, I realized you could probably do the same and just save the changes. -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike & Barbara In Arcadia Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:01 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] removing attachments from email but keeping theemail Hi Chris; These are some steps I wrote for myself using Outlook Express. Try them and see if they work with Outlook. Let's say someone sends you an email with an attachment in it. Now, you want to save the email but, not the attachment. Here is what you do. 1. With the email open press control + F to forward the email to yourself or to whomever you might want to send the email to without the attachment. 2. Enter in to whomever you are sending this email to. 3. Tab down to where the email says attachment and press the delete key or you can also, press the applications / context menu key, arrow down to remove, & press enter to delete the attachment. 4. Now, tab down to the edit field, make any changes, or remove old email addresses and crap like that and send the email. Now, when you send this email it will be without the attachment. When you delete an attachment, you better be damn sure that you want to delete it, because once you do , it is gone , permanently! In all the tests I've done, not 1 deletion went to the Recycle Bin. Hope this helps. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Feist To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:23 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] removing attachments from email but keeping theemail Hi. Using Outlook 2007, I have received an email with some attachments. After I save the attachments to my documents, I'd like to then keep the email. But I don't' want my email to keep this big attachment in it. is it possible to actually remove the attachments but keep the email rather than deleting it? I hope I can just strip it out of there and keep the rest of the email in my Outlook folder. Thanks. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
