Strange, but when I do the same thing, and Outlook opens, with the file I
right-clicked/Send to Mail Recipient as an Attachment like it should do.
It could have something to do with the email client you're using.....which
is it that you use?
Outlook/Mail/Live Mail or something else like Thunderbird?
"Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I should know better, but I make the same mistake again and again when I
> am absorbed in my work. I right-click on the document I want to Send
> to/Mail Mail Recipient, and find that what I had selected was NOT the
> document, just a LINK to the document.
>
> Is there any way of activating a user option to chose, at that moment,
> between the link and the underlying document? Vista has plenty of
> exasperating UAC serial popup messages (eg five clicks just to do a Disk
> Cleanup), but a warning/option in this case would be welcome. Perhaps this
> feature is available and I just need to enable it?
>
> Doug