New to Mac - Outlook Copy/Paste

[BearCruz]

Hi All,

New to MacOS. In Windows, I was able to open an email and right click on the attachment, select COPY; and then go to another email and click PASTE. Simple, the attachment was pasted there and ready to be sent.

Now with Outlook on Mac, I dont have the option to copy an attachment at all.

Is there some other app that could perhaps assist with this? The whole drag and drop works fine but is a bit of schlep.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I don’t use Outlook but does drag and drop maybe work?

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Oh you already said drag and drop works.

Try Apple Mail and see if it’s any different.

Really no need for Outlook to even be installed.

 

[BearCruz]

I don’t use Outlook but does drag and drop maybe work?

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Oh you already said drag and drop works.

Try Apple Mail and see if it’s any different.

Really no need for Outlook to even be installed.

Perhaps I should look more into that. Outlook has just been a part of my life for so long… in fact…. Most of my life.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Perhaps I should look more into that. Outlook has just been a part of my life for so long… in fact…. Most of my life.

You’ve changed the OS. Might as well change the mail client.

It’s not perfect but it does a lot of stuff better/different.

 

[backstreetboy]

Works fine in Apple Mail.

 

[BearCruz]

Thanks, gonna take a while to get used to this. But will try the native mail app.

 

[shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle]

I was able to open an email and right click on the attachment, select COPY; and then go to another email and click PASTE.

Say what?!

I have to try this.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Do the keyboard shortcuts not maybe work? Command + C and Commanders + V?

 

[bwana]

Do the keyboard shortcuts not maybe work? Command + C and Commanders + V?

I installed Outlook to answer that very qn...

No.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I installed Outlook to answer that very qn...

No.

What a trooper.

 

[bwana]

What a trooper.

Knowledge earned is knowledge learned.

 

[backstreetboy]

Your Google was down? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-outlook/dee309d1-450b-4c7d-bea4-fa0dd83a2383

Copy paste creates links on the mac version. Instead use the drag and drop method to add attachments.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Why would one do this instead of just hitting forward and stripping out the text?

That seems way faster to me and also from a storage perspective would consume only one “slot” of data.

 

[bwana]

Your Google was down? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-outlook/dee309d1-450b-4c7d-bea4-fa0dd83a2383

Things can often change after nine years and countless updates.

 

[BearCruz]

Why would one do this instead of just hitting forward and stripping out the text?

That seems way faster to me and also from a storage perspective would consume only one “slot” of data

It may be faster, but sometimes I need to attach an attachment to a previous mail I recieved. For example, a client will send me a request for a quotation. The internal team then creates the quotation and sends this through to me. I would then copy that attachment and reply to the clients initial request and paste the attachment.

 

[BearCruz]

I installed Outlook to answer that very qn...

No.

Appreciate the effort and confirmation.

 

[SauRoNZA]

It may be faster, but sometimes I need to attach an attachment to a previous mail I recieved. For example, a client will send me a request for a quotation. The internal team then creates the quotation and sends this through to me. I would then copy that attachment and reply to the clients initial request and paste the attachment.

Makes sense.