Article ID: 184126
Article Last Modified on 8/28/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 97 Standard Edition
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SYMPTOMS
In addition to sending text messages, Microsoft Outlook can
send attached files with your e-mail. Including an attachment in an e-mail
message increases the file size of your message, and can impact transmission
speed and create network bottlenecks.
WORKAROUND
One way to decrease this negative impact is file
compression. However, due to mail standards, Outlook does not compress file
attachments.
The following third-party products that perform file
compression are readily available.
BKZip 97 (Bernd Kemmlers)
Features the ability to create, view, and extract Zip files. Also
uses a slider bar control to determine the amount of compression used.
MaX Compression (C2C Systems)
This add-in automatically compresses and decompresses attachments
in Outlook.
TurboZip (Pacific Gold Coast)
You can work with files within archives and e-mails without
unzipping or decoding. Also offers built-in ActiveX control for WYSIWYG (what
you see is what you get) viewing of Office 97 documents and spreadsheets.
WinZip (Niko Mak Computing, Inc.)
WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file
formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ,
LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs.
ZipMagic (Aladdin Systems)
Shows Zip files as folders so you can view the contents without
extracting the files. Supports the universal ZIP format, as well as ARJ,
LHA/LZH, Z, GZIP, TAR, TAZ, TGZ, CAB, and ZOO. It also can open and decode
BinHex, UUEncode, XXEncode, and MIME.
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