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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Ginette Anderson
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Teams seems to have little bits of everything in it, but not yet the full package. I'm trying to get my users to switch to Teams Groups instead of mapped shared drives and this is one of the things holding us back from doing that. We need Teams to be complete. weather it's sharing to email from Teams, or being able to Navigate to Teams Groups files to attach a document without having to sync the entire directory or Open in sharePoint.
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Matt Watson
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This or a fully fledge set of sharing options please.
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Anonymous
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All of my users want to be able to navigate to the Teams files from the Outlook Desktop application and attach a file from a team to an email.
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Ross Chevalier
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Absolutely essential as is drag and drop from Teams | Files to other locations.
The existing method is completely user hostile. Hard to get people to use Teams when simple things are so complicated.
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Karen Blonder
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They need to be able to drag and drop from teams window or sharepoint in to outlook app any files they want to attach. The drag and drop feature going away (except for uploads) is really problematic
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Karen Blonder
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Every single one of my users has complained about this. It is multiple steps, it is clunky. We had to allow users to sync so many files between sharepoint and windows file explorer just to be able to do this...that has caused even more issues because of the number of files we have in some of our teams/channels. I have so many users not saving files to teams/sharepoint because of this or downloading and creating many duplicates of files.
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Thomas Tröscher
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implement this asap please
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anonymous
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WebLocations seem to work but I can pick only one file at a time - how to attach multiple files from the same "folder"?
Riaan le Roux commented · February 23, 2021 9:52 PM · Flag as inappropriate
Hi there. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, as I have not read all the comments. But you can open a new e-mail and then attached the file from Web Locations and then using Sharepoint or what it refers to as sites. There I was able to scan through the files as it was uploaded and shared within teams. Select the file and attach it from there. Try it out. -
Anonymous
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How can I attach a file from 365 MS Outlook to MS Teams? Thanks
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Riaan le Roux
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Hi there. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, as I have not read all the comments. But you can open a new e-mail and then attached the file from Web Locations and then using Sharepoint or what it refers to as sites. There I was able to scan through the files as it was uploaded and shared within teams. Select the file and attach it from there. Try it out.
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Fabrice
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This function is available in the "Zoom" application. This makes things much easier.
We will finally switch to "Zoom".
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Matt Crane
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Today I found out that using the below cmdlet allowed my users to access the mailbox assigned to the Team, by also doing this my users can now attach files from that Teams under the group option when attaching a file to an email, hopefully this is a good work around for you guys.
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "groupname" -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$false -
Anonymous
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Agree entirely, this is a missed opportunity and makes it very difficult working across Microsoft platforms.
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Anonymous
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Same with appending emails to a file within Teams. we should be able to "append to" from Outlook and select a file already saved within Teams.
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Anonymous
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Confirmed, need this function. Please prioritize on the road map. This is possible with guests but not with people from other companies. It is incomprehensible!
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Troy
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Wow, interesting that I can attach a file in this comment, glad this is not run by Microsoft TEAMS!
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Cindy Ische
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I can't believe this functionality isn't standard. By not allowing direct email of docs, Teams is creating silos of data which doesn't serve anyone well. Multiple steps to achieve what was a one-step process isn't a benefit.
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Anonymous
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Also absolutely agree!!!
This one of many reasons why I changed my mind... I was exited to move to O365 with Teams and all other aps. However after months using I found that many things became worse to use and many functions like the described missing... Now I am generally annoyed using O365 and Teams -
Anonymous
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I agree! This is a huge hassle and makes me annoyed everytime I have to do it. Makes me want to go back to Sharepoint where I could map a directory and insert the file into an email. Please get this fixed!
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Trevor
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This is a no brainer. I have just helped a small charity move to Teams and now they are getting frustrated at how time consuming it is to attach a file to an email so an external user can review it. This is an inhibitor rather than an enabler to the uptake of Teams.