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Do you sometimes receive email messages that contain more than one attachment? If you have, you probably saved one mail attachment at a time, which works well enough. But maybe you actually get lots of messages with multiple attachments, or occasional messages with lots of attachments, you might be interested to know that there is indeed a way to download and save multiple attachments at the same time. It’s actually easy to do, but the process varies a little bit depending on whether you are using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. What follows are step-by-step instructions for each version of Outlook. In order to prevent any confusion, there are separate instruction sets for each Outlook version.

How to Save More than One Mail Attachment at Once in Outlook 2003

This is the procedure to follow when you want to save multiple mail attachment files at a time when you’re using Outlook 2003.

  1. Open the message containing the attachments you want to save.
  2. Click File, then Save Attachments.
  3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, select the attachments you want to save, then click OK.
  4. A standard file save dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder where you want to save the attachments and click OK to save them.

How to Save More than One Mail Attachment at Once in Outlook 2007

This is the procedure to follow when you want to save more than one mail attachment simultaneously when working with Outlook 2007.

  1. Select and open the message that contains the attachments.
  2. Click Other Actions in the Actions panel of the Ribbon. Then click Save Attachments.
  3. When the Save All Attachments dialog box appears, find the Attachments list, select the attachments you want to save, then click OK.
  4. A standard file save dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder that you want to save the attachments in. Click click OK to save them.

     

That’s all there is to it. The attachments are now saved in the folder you selected. I hope that you’ll find these procedures to be useful in your daily interactions with Outlook. And in case you were wondering, there are a lot more tips where these came from.

The Living With Outlook website has an illustrated version of these multiple mail attachment instructions, not to mention literally hundreds more tips and tricks for making your days with Outlook more pleasant. Please come and explore the site. Here’s a good starting page for someone dealing with lots of email: http://www.living-with-outlook.com/outlook-mail-tips.html