Outlook should ask for any attachments

[Rodney O]

Over and over again, I, my office mates, and Microsoft Outlook peers send out
emails and have forgotten to include attachments. I have "jury-rigged" a way
that I will never forget attachments again. In the AutoCorrect function, I
have purposely made the word 'attached' change to an incorrect spelling.
Then, after I click to send out the email, a spelling and grammar check scans
the body of the email. If I have forgotten the attachment, the misspelling
of the word will be acknowledged, I can then exit the spelling and grammar
check to add the attachment. If I have already added the attachment, I
simply click 'Change' to correct the spelling of 'attached' and the email is
sent off. Is there a better way to perform this action? If not, could
Microsoft create a function that would scan bodies of emails in search of
words similar to 'attach' and ask the email author if they have attached the
appropriate document?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

For VBA code checks for expected attachments and blank subject lines, see
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=553