Attachments are not compressed by Outlook 97

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This article was previously published under Q184126

SYMPTOMS

In addition to sending text messages, Microsoft Outlook can send attached files with your e-mail. Including an attachment in an e-mail message increases the file size of your message, and can impact transmission speed and create network bottlenecks.

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WORKAROUND

One way to decrease this negative impact is file compression. However, due to mail standards, Outlook does not compress file attachments.

The following third-party products that perform file compression are readily available.

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BKZip 97 (Bernd Kemmlers)

http://bks.simplenet.com/ (http://bks.simplenet.com/)

Features the ability to create, view, and extract Zip files. Also uses a slider bar control to determine the amount of compression used.

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MaX Compression (C2C Systems)

http://www.c2c.com (http://www.c2c.com)

This add-in automatically compresses and decompresses attachments in Outlook.

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TurboZip (Pacific Gold Coast)

http://www.turbozip.com (http://www.turbozip.com)

You can work with files within archives and e-mails without unzipping or decoding. Also offers built-in ActiveX control for WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) viewing of Office 97 documents and spreadsheets.

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WinZip (Niko Mak Computing, Inc.)

http://www.winzip.com (http://www.winzip.com)

WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs.

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ZipMagic (Aladdin Systems)

http://www.allume.com/win/index.html (http://www.allume.com/win/index.html)

Shows Zip files as folders so you can view the contents without extracting the files. Supports the universal ZIP format, as well as ARJ, LHA/LZH, Z, GZIP, TAR, TAZ, TGZ, CAB, and ZOO. It also can open and decode BinHex, UUEncode, XXEncode, and MIME.

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MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. For information about how to contact P1, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/65416/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/60781/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/60782/ ) Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

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