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Outlook 2007 – Preview of Email Attachments July 6, 2006

One of the cool features in Outlook 2007 is the ability to view (and only view) the email attachments (doc, xls, ppt, etc) within the message window itself; you don’t have to open the files explicitly. Outlook 2007 spawns the authoring application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) inside the ‘preview window’ (for the lack of better name) and makes it to render the file. Since it is only a preview, you don’t get the standard context menus or menu command bars, but you do get options for common options such as slide navigation, Select All and Copy.

You can always tab between the message and attachment previews by clicking on the respective items.

Office 2007 continues to impress me!