On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:34:19 -0500, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

Just drag to the buttons on the navigation pane - it will open in the right
form type.

I wish it would, but it doesn't. We have two tasks available, my own
and the general mailbox. I have to do the double thingie business,
drag down to the task button below and then choose the right tasks
option.

If you need the message readable and the attachment, drag it so it opens the
form with the text in the body,. Drag the message to the open form to add it

Yeah, but how? When I right click and drag I get 3 options, which
don't work the way they should. Either I get the whole message
bundled up, which includes the attachment (but no message text) or I
get just the text with nothing attached.

When I drag directly, I get _only_ text. No options come up at all.
Control drag doesn't change that.

as an attachment. Or just drag the attachment to the open form. You can drag
attachments right from the reading pane to the form.

Oh, brother, double-drag??? Drag the messge one way so that I get the
text and then drag the attachment into it?

Well, if this reduced functionality in OL2003 means that that's the
only way, then that's what I'll have to do. I jsut have to really
hope that the general mailbox doesn't received very many messages on
any given day because that's going to get very old, very fast sigh.

Thanks!! Appreciate the help. It's good to figure out a workaround,
at any rate. We just have to have both, just like what automatically
happened in O2K days. D


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"StargateFanWrk" wrote in message
...
sigh Well, at least I got _half_ of the functionality back, although
with the added extra step since the Tasks are no longer accessible in the
folder pane so can't slide directly but carefully have to right-click and
drag to tasks icon down at bottom which opens the tasks in the navigation
pane and then up to the tasks at the top (M$ = 1 step forward, 2 steps
backward with version changes lol).

Unlike O2K, although I get my original message with attachments, yes, he
body of the message doesn't also get dumped, visible below the attached
message. This means that I have to open the email each and every time I
need to consult the context email sigh.

Still, can't lose the attachments so have to live with the loss of the
message unless I train myself to copy the contents of the email first
before the click and drag business to the tasks folder sigh. Might have
to do the extra work since it will be more work to open up every single
email message each time we need to check something. We must keep the
attachment; we don't need to access it vs. needing to see the content of
the email. (Why does M$ do these types of things?? There is no gain in
this loss of functionality. Unless I'm missing something [pls, pls let it
be that I'm missing something g])

Thanks. I really appreciate the help.

D



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Try ctrl+drag or right click + drag to get attachments. It won't do both
though - you can get one or the other.

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"StargateFanWrk" wrote in message
...
In O2K, if you drag an email message into the tasks folder, it
duplicates the message but also converts the original message into an
attachment within the task. Can someone advise me how to get that
behaviour back in OL2003, pls.

Thanks. D