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Outlook: Auto reminder when forgetting attachments in messages

You may be headache to forget adding attachments, but remind recipients to check attachments in email message body. Here we will introduce two tricks about how to automatically remind yourself when you send an email message that may be missing attachments in Microsoft Outlook.

Automatically reminder when forgetting attachments in Outlook 2013/2016

Automatically reminder when forgetting attachments in Outlook 2007 and 2010

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arrow blue right bubbleAuto reminder when forgetting attachments in Outlook 2013/2016

Microsoft Outlook 2013 supports the feature of automatically warning you when you send an email message that may be missing attachments.

Step 1: Click the File > Options.

Step 2: In the Outlook Options dialog box, click the Mail in the left bar.

Step 3: Go to the Send messages section, and keep checking the option of Warn me when I send a message that may be missing an attachment.

Step 4: Click the OK button to exit this dialog box.

Then Microsoft Outlook 2013 or 2016 will warn you automatically if you may forget attachments.

For example, you enter the text of “please check attachments”, “view attachments”, etc. in your message body, but do not insert attachments in the Attachment field. When clicking the Send button, a warning dialog box will pop out to say that you may have forgotten to attach a file. See the following screen shot:


arrow blue right bubbleAuto reminder when forgetting attachments in Outlook 2007 and 2010

Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010 do not support automatically warning if you may forget attachments. A VBA macro can help you realize it.

Step 1: Press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual for Applications window.

Step 2: Expend the Project 1 in the left bar, and double click the ThisOutlookSession to open it.

Step 3: Paste the following code in the ThisOutlookSession window.

VBA: Warning if not insert attachment

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim retMB As Variant
Dim strBody As String
Dim iIndex As Long

On Error GoTo handleError

iIndex = InStr(Item.Body, "attach")

If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 0 Then

retMB = MsgBox("You may have forgotten to attach a file." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Do you still want to continue?", vbQuestion + vbYesNo + vbMsgBoxSetForeground)
If retMB = vbNo Then Cancel = True

End If

handleError:

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Outlook Attachment Alert Error: " & Err.Description, vbExclamation, "Outlook Attachment Alertr Error"
End If

End Sub

Step 4: Click the Save button on the toolbar.

From now on, if you add text of “attachment” in the message body but don’t attach files, the warning reminder will pop out to tell you that you may have forgotten to attach a file when you click the Send button. See screen shot:


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The built in functionality is not as good as the VBA code !!! Test it for yourself, for example, if you copy/paste the "please check attachments" text, it won't trigger... you need to write it in the body. I prefer the VBA code version, and moreover you can customize it (language and check for other words).
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Will this vba code work with signatures?
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I had the same issue, you have to change the code "If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 0" to "If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count > 1 "This only works when you have 1 picture in you signiture and not emailing in a string with a lot of signitures, but at least it helps for single emails.
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works well- easy to set up-thanks
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Will not work for me regardless of count value. I've tried everything here and for some reason can never get the popup.
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THANK YOU!
This works perfectly for me with "If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 0" despite the fact that I have an image in my signature. I'm using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
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If anyone is having trouble using this code, images in your signature count as attachments.


I have one image in my signature, so changing the line:

If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 0 Then

to:

If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 0 Or Item.Attachments.Count = 1 Then

Made it work for me.
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Thanks for pointing this out this was also a problem I was having. I found that your fix prompted the warning regardless of whether the word 'attach' had been used. Instead I used:

If iIndex > 0 And Item.Attachments.Count = 1 Then

This prompted the warning only when intended not whenever any email was sent.
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Thanks Anthony, it worked.
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This Code would not work for me. I had to use this one:
Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

If InStr(1, Item.Body, "attach", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then

If Item.Attachments.Count = 0 Then

answer = MsgBox("There's no attachment, send anyway?", vbYesNo)

If answer = vbNo Then Cancel = True

End If

End If

End Sub
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Is the Auto-Attachment feature designed to work when email is sent using the Ctrl+Enter keys?
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Is the Auto Attachment feature designed to work when you send email using the Ctrl+Enter keys?
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I've used this code and when I test it with my email address in the to line I get the error message, but if I put anyone else in there it goes through just fine. Any ideas about what could be happening?
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