Email question (Outlook/Word 2003)

I want to be able to save an email which has attachments in it to send again

Any ideas?

Need a bit more info.

Outlook will save emails with attachment. If you "Forward" attachment will go as well but if you "Reply" attachment will not be sent.

Normally I would create the message and send the attachments in the email. But as I send the same email out to students with a different course date in the message title, I want to create an email that I can save and reuse. I have tried saving the email with the attachments, but when I come to send the email the attachments are just xls icons.

Can you not save it as a template?

I think I understand what you are saying...do you get Excel images in the body of the email rather than an attachment shown?

If so this is just a format issue. If you compose email as "HTML" format you get attachments shown like Outlook Express. If you compose as Rich Text or Plain Text you get the attachments shown in the body of the email.

Both ways work the same they just look different.

which is what I tried on Friday, but it didn't work.

Not sure what you're doing wrong or why it's not working, but I just created an email with an excel file as an attachment (Outlook and Excel 2003) and then I chose:

File > Save As, then choose Outlook Template (*.oft). Saved it to my desktop....

Double clicked the oft file on desktop, email opens up with attatchment in place. If you're using Word to edit your emails though, it seems you need to turn this off as evidenced here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/HA010865001033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033

thats where I was going wrong, was creating the template in Word. Sussed it this morning and happy with the result