Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Don’t forget attachments in Outlook 2007 anymore

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 03:43 AM PDT

Just two days ago, I wrote about the most useful Gmail Labs features, one of which is a attachment reminder. If you mention somewhere in your email that you have "attached" a file, etc, and if you click Send and there is no attachment, it will prompt you before sending.

Unfortunately, this functionality is not available in Outlook by default, however, since it's one of the most used email clients in the world, it would be nice to have the option!

Outlook Attachment Reminder is a new free application that will remind you if you planned on attaching a file to your email, but forgot to.

The program will basically search for words like attachment, attached, etc and if they exist, will then check to see if any files are attached. The cool thing about the program is that it lets you manage the words to look for.

So if you don't use the words attachment or attached, you can add those into the program and it will check for them.

The program works with Office 2007 and Office 2010. It currently does not work with any version earlier than 2007, but may support them in the future.

The only requirement for the program is that you have .NET 3.5 installed since it was written in Visual Studio 2008.

If you like the program, make sure to write a review of it on the authors website because he is making lots of changes and adding many new features. Since it's still in beta, you may come across some bugs too, so report those.

Also, check out some of my other articles about Outlook, such as how to set an away message in Outlook, how to export contacts from Outlook, how to create a secured Outlook data file, and how to fix Outlook errors. Enjoy! [via Life Rocks]