keyboard shortcut to send a file as mail attachment

Question

Is there any shortcut or way to create a shortcut to attach selected file as mail attachment in Outlook. Now, I've to right click the selected file and use "Send To-->Mail Recipient" option. A shortcut will help a lot.

Solution 1

Ctrl + N in outlook will open new email. You can copy past the attachment to the new email.

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V ;-)

Solution 2

There is no default Windows shortcut, however you would be able to create your own using AutoHotKey

Solution 3

For those who like to work at the command line, check out blat. Once configured, it can be used to form and send a complete email from a single command. Note that blat is a complete mail user agent itself: it does not use Outlook or any other mailer on the PC.

For example, the following command:

C:\...>blat -to [email protected] -subject "Totality" -attach total.jpg -body "Here's that shot of the total eclipse"
Blat v2.6.2 w/GSS encryption (build : Feb 25 2007 12:06:19)

Sending stdin.txt to [email protected]
Subject: Totality
Login name is [email protected]
Attached binary file: total.jpg

C:\...>

Sends a photo along with a short text caption to a single recipient, printing some reassuring progress notes along the way.

It is actually quite the powerful tool, and can be handy if you need to have a long-running (or scheduled at odd times) batch job that you'd like to report results from.

Solution 4

Try the following sequence: F10, F, D, A

Solution 5

Just use the default ALT (underlined) shorcuts, so for Sent to Mail Recipient:

ALT + F N M

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Comments

[Windos]

Currently selected in what? Outlook? Windows Explorer?

[Ivo Flipse]

I seriously should start using it, if you see how many things there are you would want to HotKey

[bwDraco]

Can you explain specifically what this does?

[NetMage]

Pressing and releasing ALT in Office programs activates a legacy menu emulation mode that uses single letters for selecting Ribbon Tabs and commands. Originally it was added for those used to the pre-ribbon menu shorts where you could use ALT+Menu Letters. Holding ALT down while hitting the keys executes the final command.

[NetMage]

ALT+# executes a Quick Access Toolbar shortcut, so you must have the email as attachment on your QAT.