Add "attach to email" option from Files in Teams
If you are working in Teams and want to send one of your files to someone outside of the Team, your options for sending it as an attachment are clunky and many clicks. You can download the file and then attach it to an email, you can open the file in Word (or whatever relevant program) and then "share" and send as an email attachment, and there are some similarly clunky options. It would be nice if there were a simple menu item for Teams files to simply "attach to email" so you can send to external customers or people who do not have permissions/access for the Team and linked SharePoint site.
Kat Weixel
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Anonymous
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If you use the Sync function within the Teams app (or on the sharepoint site directly) it will sync the files to your OneDrive app. That will sync them to windows file explorer and you can attach directly from there.
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Anonymous
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This would definitely be very useful. It would also be really handy to be able to drag email attachments into Files in Teams.
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Anonymous
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The ability to email multiple files from teams is a "must have".
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CGarcia
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Agreed it takes multiple clicks to move a file from email to Teams to share with a work group. Either add a drag and drop feature or add to teams feature.
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Roar Elias Georgsen
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A major hurdle. Especially problematic for non-office files, such as pdf. These have to be downloaded and viewed in an external viewer before showing up in "Attach file" "recent items" for easy attaching. Would also be easier if SharePoint location was directly accessible from Teams, so "Browse Web Location" could be used in "Attach file".
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Conor
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We are waiting on this functionality prior to deploying teams. The test group noted this was a must have feature prior to migration.
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thomas hadorn
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something very basic one would think - and yet desperately needed!
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Anonymous
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We are desperate for this to happen. As the other comments mention, we have moved our client to the cloud to avoid saving data locally, now they have to download the file (which most are doing to desktop for ease) creating another version of the doc, and creating data where its not needed? This needs resolving asap!
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Matt
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This needs to be fixed,using teams to store and manipulate files then not be able to share the file outside of teams with out a clunky interface negates the use of teams in general. I can just use SharePoint with out the teams front end and get a better experience with file sharing.
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Steve E
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Our company has rolled out Teams Globally and we are having to send emails outside the Team too. Had a Heart attack to find out that it actually adds steps to the whole process. Hope they fix soon
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jason
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I can't believe that we are still awaiting a fix on this one! Are there any proposed dates for it to be sorted?
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Jurgen
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Drag and drop as attachment into a new email would be best.
In a similar boat to others who struggle with external collaborators. We need a way that is as convenient as email to share files externally from Teams.
At very least though it should be easy to attach files to emails (for sending externally)
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Srinivas Sridhar
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Amazing and unacceptable that they dont have an easy way to email files from Teams Files.
Still a work in progress it seems. -
Anonymous
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YES! My boss was just complaining to me about this today. Our company does not allow us to share links to files in Teams/SharePoint to people outside the company. When sending file(s) from the Team that works with a vendor TO the vendor, we need to be able to do so directly from Teams.
We are conversing on an issue in the conversations tab. I want to be able to select the document from within the conversation (using elipses), and attach the file to an Outlook email.
Additionally, be able to select multiple documents from within the files tab and Attach all to an Outlook email.
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Anonymous
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Yes for the user experience this would be a must have.
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Jim
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Would also like to attach Team files to emails started in Outlook. I can attach files from OneDrive, Groups, and SharePoint using "Browse web locations" in the attachment dialogue window, but Teams is not an option.
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Greg Finger
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This would be AWESOME! I have to deal with this almost daily. Proposals are created by one person, saved in the Teams file library, and another person is responsible for sending that proposal.
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test
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Glad that I found this. And realised there is NO QUICK FIX yet
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Anonymous
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Could not agree more, this is super annoying.
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Jonathan Eccles
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I totally agree, my work centers around sending people outside Teams and Sharepoint documents they need to complete then send back to me. The whole point of going to Teams was to have a more cloud based structure, but the inability to attach files to e-mails from Teams is a huge issue for my work.