compress a group of pictures for an e-mail attachment?

J

JM

WINXP-Pro, Office 2003... I block a group of *.jpg files in a directory,
right click, select send to a mail recipient. Expect to be asked if files
should be compressed for e-mail, but that does not happen. It used to in
Office XP (2000)... How do I set Outlook (or Word as the editor for e-mail)
to compress the pictures?
 
J

jm

I just found that in Office 2003 there is a Picture Manager that will
compress in batch for e-mailing but I wanted to have Outlook or Word give me
the choice at the time I compose the mail message. I do not want to
compress and save all the pictures...
 
V

_Vanguard_

JM said:
WINXP-Pro, Office 2003... I block a group of *.jpg files in a
directory,
right click, select send to a mail recipient. Expect to be asked if
files
should be compressed for e-mail, but that does not happen. It used to
in
Office XP (2000)... How do I set Outlook (or Word as the editor for
e-mail)
to compress the pictures?
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JPEG files will compress very little if at all since they are already
compressed. "Compressing" them into an archive might actually enlarge
their size with the only benefit being that you group all the files into
one archive file (i.e., all the .jpg files are contained within one .zip
file).

I don't remember a version of Outlook that ever automatically compressed
attached files, or even let you manually compress them. You needed to
install a file compression utility to add that feature. Besides adding
support to viewing many graphic file formats, Quickview Plus also added
support for auto-compression of attached files in Outlook (it installed
an add-in). PKZip also adds support for file compression to Outlook.
WinZip has their eternally beta add-in to add compression to Outlook.
 
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