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Sending document as an attachment to an email rather than a link

Anonymous
2016-10-07T20:47:37+00:00

As a company, we store all our docments on Sharepoint. Very often, we need to send a file to an outside receipient and want to attach a file to the email. However, the recepient often times receives a link and not the attachment. How can we send the actual file so thatthe receipent receives a file and not a link? We drag the file from Sharepoint into our email but for some reason, the receipient still only gets a link.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-08T07:10:23+00:00

    Hi Michael,

    When the document in SharePoint is attached from network locations (drag from a browser or insert from web locations in Outlook), it’s always sent as a link.

    To send the actual document, you can sync the SharePoint document library to your local disk, and then insert from your computer.

    Regards,

    Jiaxing

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-11T15:30:03+00:00

    Hi Michael,

    Out-of-the-box this is not possible. There are 3rd party tools available. See Collab365 (https://collab365.directory/office365-sharepoint/email-tools-for-sharepoint-and-office-365/). The tool I am affiliated with is browser-based and allows a user to select a document in SharePoint and then directly attach it to a new email. Multiple documents (or folders) are automatically zipped and then attached to the email. This way there is no need to first download the document(s) and then attach them to the email.

    Paul | SLIM Applications

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