Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Open Email Attachments On A Blackberry

Viewing email attachments on your Blackberry is a snap, as the device is extremely versatile. Blackberry supports your ability to view Office documents in Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats, PDF files with Adobe Acrobat, text and WordPerfect documents, images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats, compressed ZIP documents and webpages in HTML. However, you will need third-party software to edit or resend documents in many of these formats.


Instructions


Open Email Attachments on a Blackberry


1. View your message list by using your track-wheel to click on "Messages" from the Home screen.


2. Check to see if an incoming email has an attachment. If so, it will have a paper clip icon next to its listing in your message list.








3. Scroll to an email that has an attachment and press the "ENTER" key to open the email.


4. Press the track-wheel while viewing the open email and select "Open Attachment."


5. Use the "Table of Contents" or "Full Contents" option to allow you to view enough information about the attachment to determine if it is supported by Blackberry. This will help ensure that you wish to retrieve it and that it is not a threat to your Blackberry security.


6. Select the "Full Contents" option and use the track-wheel to click on "Retrieve." Depending on the size and format of your incoming attachment, only part of your document may appear.


7. Scroll through the document to retrieve the rest of it.


8. Return to the main body of your message after viewing an attachment by pressing the "ESC" key. Your Blackberry server generally does not save the attachment to your device unless you have installed third-party software to edit and re-use the attachment.


9. Return to the message list to view other messages and attachments by pressing the "ESC" key again.

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