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Paul Chapman
Iron Contributor
Nov 21, 2016

In defence of modern attachments... suggestions?

Hello,   I've ready MANY posts by people annoyed by the default attachment behaviour in Outlook 2016 (send as editable link rather than attach a copy). I know you can change attachments to copies q...
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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Nov 22, 2016

Hi Paul.

Unfortunately I have no good arguments in favor of the default behavior of Outlook 2016, for the simple reason that there are no good arguments to defend a wrong choice.

Sure, if you want indeed to send a "cloudy attachment", and you know exactly what you are doing, having such possibility is a great plus.

But, as VasilMichev says, the bare minimum would have been to give us an option to set the default type of the link.

In the meanwhile, I have been forced to revert all my customers to the previous behavior, when possible...

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Paul Chapman
Iron Contributor
Nov 22, 2016

Thanks VasilMichev, thanks Salvatore Biscari. I agree with you both regarding the fact that organisations cannot change the default behaviour of Outlook attachments. I can make a defence of modern attachments, I can even argue that they should be by default, but the fact that we don't have the choice is just wrong.

 

In case it is of interest the defence I came up with is attached. Classic attachment ;)

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