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CANNOT SAVE PICTURES FROM INCOMING OUTLOOK 2007 EMAILS

Mar 28, 2010 7:14AM PDT

the only right click option which appears is "copy" but you cannot then "paste"mthat into your Windows Exploer folders.

The only work around I have found is to send the Email to my Hotmail account and then save the "attachments" (.jpg) which arrive with it for the graphics.

Is there a setting/option that can be adjusted so that incoming email graphics can be saved directly( addition to right click option) to a graphics folder or even a Microsoft program like Paint, Image viewer or similar?


OS Windows 7 Home Premium - OFFICE 2007 Teaching Version Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Word,

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Follow these steps to save picures...
Mar 28, 2010 1:37PM PDT

Hi There,

Try following these steps to save the picture:

1. Right click on the embedded picture and click on copy.
2. Right click on your desktop and click Paste.
3. The "Active Desktop" dialog box will appear and tell you that you need to save the picture in order to do this, just click "Yes" to continue.
4. Windows now brings up the Save As dialog box and you can save the .jpg picture wherever you want.

Let me know if this solves the problem!

Cheers,
Cassandra

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Or try this...
Mar 29, 2010 3:34AM PDT
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workaround
Mar 28, 2011 12:09PM PDT

1) Open the email with embedded images in message body, click "Other Actions" button found in the Actions tab and select "View In Browser".


2) Now, the email is opened in Internet Explorer. Press ALT+F to bring up File menu and select "Save As" option.

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Why is this even happening?
May 19, 2013 2:27PM PDT

I'd like to bring this thread back to life just in case anybody has figured out what's wrong here....

Why all these work-arounds? Does anybody know why this happens in the first place? Some setting that isn't right? Why do some of us only see a "copy" option with the right-click context menu? My friends all say they have a "save as" option when they do this. I do not - I have the same problem as the OP... I can only "copy" and pasting it does nothing for me. None of the work-arounds work, and I can't figure out why I even NEED a work-around.


win7
Outlook 2007
Picture embedded in email

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HELP - agreed - is this a flaw in Outlook 2007?
Oct 21, 2014 7:11AM PDT

None of above work arounds work. Why can't we right click and SAVE AS?

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I have to write no.
Oct 21, 2014 7:31AM PDT

Since it works here it must be a flaw in your OS or installation. Where Microsoft and others fail is how to repair I'm sure you have read reload the OS or app. This thread is more than 1668 days old.

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The issue remains for several of us
Oct 21, 2014 11:12AM PDT

And so how old this post is - is really irrelevant - the problem persists.

For the record I found a couple workarounds but still agree we shouldn't have to jerry rig the program to make it work.

1. Forward the email to yahoo ... it knows how to save as for an image.

2. On another forum I saw where you can: File, Save the Email to your desktop and when you pull it up again you are then able to Save As.

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Then take it to the mountain or mountaintop?
Oct 21, 2014 11:18AM PDT

It works fine here so my thought is that it's something off in folk's PCs. Clearing up such errors is what I do but I can't see your machine. For example I've found that some accounts do this and a new (Windows account) is fine. There are some that feel that such work is uncalled for and want Microsoft to fix their PC.
Bob

PS. Sure it's relevant that it's been that way for you for 4 years. Why did you live with so long?

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that's because of two "clipboards"
Oct 21, 2014 8:59PM PDT

It's saving to one, and trying to paste from the other and the twain do not meet. My Linux has two clipboards by default, but I have no problem accessing either one, so maybe Windows has 2 ways to paste, so that one works but the other doesn't? In Linux I can right clk to paste from one clipboard, and press the wheel clk on mouse to paste from the second, depending on which clipboard method it was saved to. Have you tried opening explorer, open the folder you want it saved to and then Hold the CTRL key while pressing the V key? If that doesn't work for you, then download a windows capable software that installs a multiple clipboard and that should fix it up for you and add capabilities.

Clipboard manager is popular. Here's the windows version.

Here's an example, as shown in Ubuntu

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-clipboard-managers-windows/

http://lifehacker.com/5298615/five-best-clipboard-managers