How to rename attachments in Outlook window without saving to disc?

For attachments of received email message, you may want to rename these attachments for easily recognizing in future work. Actually, there has no Outlook build-in function for you to directly rename attachments in Outlook window without saving them to disc. In this article, we will show you methods of renaming attachments in Outlook.

Automatically save and rename attachments with VBA code in Outlook
Easily rename attachments in email without saving to disc with Kutools for Outlook

Save and rename attachments with VBA code in Outlook

In this section, we will provide a VBA code to automatically save the attachments of selected email. After saving, you can see the last modified date of the attachments was added as a prefix to the original attachment names. Please do as follows.

1. In the Documents folder, create a new folder named Attachments to save and rename the attachments of a selected email.

2. Select the email with attachments you want to save and rename with modified dates.

3. Press Alt + F11 keys simultaniously to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window, click Insert > Module, and then paste below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code: Save attachments and add modified date before file name

Public Sub saveattachmentsadddate()
	Dim itm As Outlook.MailItem
	Dim currentExplorer As Explorer
	Dim Selection As Selection
	Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
	Dim saveFolder As String
	Dim fso As Object
	Dim oldName
	Dim file As String
	Dim DateFormat As String
	Dim newName As String
	Dim enviro As String
	enviro              = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE"))
	saveFolder          = enviro & "\Documents\Attachments\"
	Set currentExplorer = Application.ActiveExplorer
	Set Selection       = currentExplorer.Selection
	Set fso             = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	On Error Resume Next
	For Each itm In Selection
		For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments
			file = saveFolder & objAtt.DisplayName
			objAtt.SaveAsFile file
			'Get the file name
			Set oldName  = fso.GetFile(file)
			DateFormat   = Format(oldName.DateLastModified, "yyyy-mm-dd ")
			newName      = DateFormat & objAtt.DisplayName
			oldName.Name = newName
			Set objAtt   = Nothing
		Next
	Next
	Set fso = Nothing
End Sub

4. Press the F5 key to run the code, and the attachments in selected email are saved to the folder "\Documents\Attachments\" and the last modified date of the attachments was added as a prefix to the original attachment names automatically.

Notes:

Easily rename attachments in email without saving to disc with Kutools for Outlook

Here highly recommended the Rename Attachments feature of Kutools for Outlook. With this feature, you can directly rename attachments in Outlook window without saving to disc.

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1. After installing Kutools for Outlook, please select an email which the attachments you will rename, and then click Kutools > Attachment Tools > Rename All.

2. In the Attachments Rename dialog box, you can see all attachments' name of selected email are listed in the Name column. Please double click an attachment name to edit, and then click the OK button to save the changes.
Tips: You can modify all attachment names or just modify any one of the attachment names as you need in the dialog box.

Then attachments are renamed in the selected email window. 

Note: You can rename a certain attachment by selecting it in the Reading Pane, clicking Kutools > Rename, in the rename dialog box, typing a new name in the Name box and then clicking the OK button to save it. See screenshot:

If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to free download the software first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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