Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could use Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context menu
in windows file explorer

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Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:59:08 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could use >Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context menu
in windows file explorer

Thanks. I have tried resizing in the past but the problem is that I
don't know what the settings should be, which I assume Outlook knows.

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On 10/01/2025 16:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could use Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context menu
in windows file explorer

I tried to install Powertoys from the Microsoft store earlier
but it refused to download saying that my pc had an inadequate
processor (or something like that).

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor 2.80 GHz

Win 10 /32 Pro

I thought Powertoys had been around for ages ?.

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On 10/01/2025 16:39, Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Ah, ok in outlook I think you might be over thinking this!

If you turn on the "Resize large images when I send this massage" option
it pretty much does what it says...

So add a bunch of large images to the message, and click send. Outlook
will down scale them to "much smaller" when it sends the message.

For example, I just did a test in Outlook 2021, added a 4MB jpeg to a
message and sent it to me. The message I received had a 160KB jpeg
attached.


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Cheers,

John.

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On 10/01/2025 17:37, Andrew wrote:

On 10/01/2025 16:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could
use Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context
menu in windows file explorer

I tried to install Powertoys from the Microsoft store earlier
but it refused to download saying that my pc had an inadequate
processor (or something like that).

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor   2.80 GHz

Win 10 /32 Pro

I thought Powertoys had been around for ages ?.

It has - although there have been some update activity recently after a
long spell of nothing changing.

Try the older, long term stable version 0.87:

https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys/releases/


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Cheers,

John.

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:08:46 +0000, John Rumm
<see.my.signature@nowhere.null> wrote:

Ah, ok in outlook I think you might be over thinking this!

+1
(Although there is less need to reduce email image file sizes than
there used to be. A groups.io message that I received the other day
had three 4Mb files attached and no-one complained, although they
would have a few years ago. They were the same size on my phone as on
the PC, too.)

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John Rumm <see.my.signature@nowhere.null> wrote:

On 10/01/2025 17:37, Andrew wrote:

On 10/01/2025 16:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Scott wrote:

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read
'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg
file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves
saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File'
then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is
there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could
use Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context
menu in windows file explorer

I tried to install Powertoys from the Microsoft store earlier
but it refused to download saying that my pc had an inadequate
processor (or something like that).

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor   2.80 GHz

Win 10 /32 Pro

I thought Powertoys had been around for ages ?.

It has - although there have been some update activity recently after a
long spell of nothing changing.

Try the older, long term stable version 0.87:

https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys/releases/

It looks like they haven't shipped a 32 bit version for a long time: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/602

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