Advanced attachment techniques in Gmail

Pt. 6 of 10 | 2:01 |

Gmail 301 - Advanced Studies

Monday March 22, 2010

Like any decent email program, Gmail offers extensive support for attachments up to 20MB in size. In this episode of our

advanced Gmail techniques video tutorial

, Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan looks at doing more with attachments in Gmail, including a way to ensure you never forget an attachment again.

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Show Notes

- Note: Before beginning this series please view the complete Gmail 101 series and the complete Gmail 201 series.

- Gmail can handle attachments of up to ~~10MB~~: Update. The limit for attachments is now 20MB.

- You have the option to open a sent document in Google Docs, View it or Download it.

- The View function is actually quite powerful and will display a wide range of file types including .DOC, XLS, PDF, RTF, PPT, and more.

- If you click Settings then Labs, you can find the Forgotten Attachment Detector.

- This function works very well to prevent you from forgetting to attach documents.

- There's also an add-on for Firefox called "dragdropupload" that allows you to drag and drop attachments in Gmail.

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