Did you open the message first before selecting Edit-Edit Message? It does
not work from the preview pane.

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After furious head scratching, eppkai asked:

| thanks for your advice, but there is no Edit Message in the Edit menu.
| I did think of reinstalling the old version from the original
| Microsoft Office disk that came with the computer. I wonder if that
| will work?
|
| "njeo" wrote:
|
|| Try clicking Edit, Edit Message and then you can attach an
|| attachment to an existing email?
||
|| "eppkai" wrote:
||
||| I recently was prompted to upgrade my Outlook 2000 (I'm guessing it
||| was 2000 - it was what I had before I upgraded to what I have now,
||| and that's 2002) to 2002, and being a creature of habit, I disliked
||| the change. But, life is change, and I tried to adapt. However, I
||| really hate the way 2002 is set up. 2000 was so much better. In
||| 2002 you can't attach attachments to an existing email - you have
||| to attach the attachments to a new email, starting with the
||| attachment. It's very confusing and annoying. That and about a
||| million other annoying things. I just can't adapt to this. I want
||| 2000 back. Can I go backwards and get 2000 back?