You can attach things to your e-mail! Just like a paperclip!

If you just wrote a paper, made a picture or have any other file that you want to send, you can attach it to your e-mail. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCATION OF THE FILE!

When you send your e-mail, the message just looks like it normally does, but the file that you indicated will travel with it, from the server to the other person’s INBOX.

Receiving an attachment
If you receive an e-mail with an attachment, you can then choose to open the attachment or to save it somewhere on your computer.
Just double click on the attachment. It will ask you what you want to do with it.

If you open it, It should open in the designated program. The file is temporarily stored in the C:\Windows\temp directory but is deleted after you closed the file again. Changes you made to it will be discarded!

If you save the attachment (for example in C:\my_documents), then you can open the attachment independently from your e-mail program.

NB. When you try to open an attachment, it might not always work.
Somebody could send you a CorelDraw file as an attachment, and you might not have the software program "CorelDraw" that can look at the file!

ZIPPED FILES
Because files can be large, and it takes time to download it, files are often "zipped". This way, a person does not have to wait that long to download it from the Internet and tie up his or her telephone line.

If you don't have software to zip or unzip a file, you should look for some feature that will do that. WINZIP is a great product for Windows. Download it from http://www.winzip.com/