Embed your spreadsheet into your next Outlook email message
by Kara Soos
Applications:
Microsoft Excel 2002/2003, Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003
Operating System:
Microsoft Windows
I often send Excel workbooks to colleagues and clients through Outlook, but sometimes an attachment doesn’t transmit properly, or it inflates the size of the email. Is there any way I can quickly send a worksheet within the body of an email instead of as an attachment?
Henry Hughes
Sr. Controller
Portland, Ore.
Excel offers quick ways to send email without the hassle of alternating between applications or attaching unnecessary data. To answer your question, there is a way to send a worksheet as part of an Outlook email body. We’ll go over this method, along with a few other tips for dealing with email right from within Excel.