Handling Attachments and Pictures in Email
MORE AND MORE EMAIL messages contain pictures. Sometimes, the picture is in the content of the message itself, such as a company logo. Other times, the picture is an attachment, like a family photo. Email handles the two types of graphics differently.
If the graphics are embedded in the content of the message, they’ll show up in your email message; you don’t need to do anything. You see all the graphics on full display, right in the message.
If someone has sent an email and attached a picture, you’ll see a paperclip attachment icon, indicating there’s an attachment, and next to it the size of the attachment. Tap the down arrow next to that and you’ll see a thumbnail of the picture. To the right of the thumbnail there’s a small icon of a disk. Tap that icon and the photo will be saved in your Download folder. (See Viewing Images and Downloaded Pages for details.) Tap the thumbnail of the picture and you’ll see the picture displayed on your screen. You can rotate the phone 90 degrees, and see the full picture as the phone switches to its wider orientation.
Attachments in Email
When you receive an email attachment in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or some ...
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