Thanks, Andrew
My email client is Windows Mail.
To clarify (I expressed it badly in my original post and may have misled
you), I click on a shortcut to a document, select Send to/Mail Recipient and
what ends up attached to the resultant Windows Mail message is the LNK file
(perhaps 1kb) and not the file (JPG, DOC, PDF or whatever, but seldom less
than 30kb) to which the LNK file is pointing. Are you really saying that
your Outlook installation automatically perceives that, in selecting the
shortcut, you had intended to send the underlying document? If so that is
what I would like Windows Mail to do for me.
"Andrew Murray" <ad-ANTI-SPAM_murray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> 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
> news:eyxXMlgyIHA.1436@xxxxxx Quote:
>> 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