How do I open a large quantity of Word attachments automatically?

Hi,
I often get emails with 10 or more Word attachments. I know there is a
way to have them open automatically, but I'm not sure how. I know I
have to have email set to HTML.
Any ideas?
Thanks

You need to have Word installed on the computer or download a free Office
viewer to see them. There is no way to open the "automatically" instead you
must click on each one at a time to open them in the viewer:

Viewers for Office programs:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
news:1132599715.277750.104200@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
> I often get emails with 10 or more Word attachments. I know there is a
> way to have them open automatically, but I'm not sure how. I know I
> have to have email set to HTML.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
>

I am certain that in the past I have opened all of them at once.
Someone told me how and it worked. I just didn't write it down.


Jim Pickering wrote:
> You need to have Word installed on the computer or download a free Office
> viewer to see them. There is no way to open the "automatically" instead you
> must click on each one at a time to open them in the viewer:
>
> Viewers for Office programs:
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
> news:1132599715.277750.104200@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> > Hi,
> > I often get emails with 10 or more Word attachments. I know there is a
> > way to have them open automatically, but I'm not sure how. I know I
> > have to have email set to HTML.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> >

Don't know who and don't know how. You might post it if you ever find it or
him/her again.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6



"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
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>I am certain that in the past I have opened all of them at once.
> Someone told me how and it worked. I just didn't write it down.
>
>
> Jim Pickering wrote:
>> You need to have Word installed on the computer or download a free Office
>> viewer to see them. There is no way to open the "automatically" instead
>> you
>> must click on each one at a time to open them in the viewer:
>>
>> Viewers for Office programs:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp

"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
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>I am certain that in the past I have opened all of them at once.
> Someone told me how and it worked. I just didn't write it down.

I would never open an email attachment without first saving it to disc and
scanning it with my AV software first, even if it was from my Mother!!
You will get your fingers burned eventually?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

If you save the attachments, you can open all of the saved files at once.
--
Ron Sommer

"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
news:1132599715.277750.104200@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
> I often get emails with 10 or more Word attachments. I know there is a
> way to have them open automatically, but I'm not sure how. I know I
> have to have email set to HTML.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
>

"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
news:1132612993.895250.30890@g14g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com
> I am certain that in the past I have opened all of them at once.
> Someone told me how and it worked. I just didn't write it down.

I haven't test this, but is should work. You must open the message in its own
window as this will not work in the Preview pane.

Click once on any of the attachments, press the A key will holding the CTRL key
(to select all), then right-click on any of the selected attachments and click
Open.

--
Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
or http://www.insideoe.com
Awareness is free.

That does the trick! Thank you! Save all - Open all.
Mary

PS - I just tested this and it opens a slew of pdf attachments all at
once too.
Thanks again

"mw40love" <mw40love@att.net> wrote in message
news:1132612993.895250.30890@g14g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>I am certain that in the past I have opened all of them at once.
> Someone told me how and it worked. I just didn't write it down.


Try selecting them all and dragging them to a Word application window?
To avoid the possibility of getting documents inserted in other already
opened documents I would try dragging to the Title bar or somewhere
which unambiguously implied you wanted the documents to open in their
own windows.

BTW I don't know if this works or not. It's just something that I would try.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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