Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Outlook: Saving Embedded Images

Downloading embedded attachments from an email in Outlook is not that easy. If we try to download them manually using "right click -> save as" method all images will be downloaded in BMP format with huge size regardless of the original format of the embedded image. This becomes a pain for downloading large number of images from an email.
 
Simple solution is a VBA macro. The complete code and method to integrate it with Outlook is available at Save Embedded Pictures in Their Original Format. In addition, we need to sign the macro to run it without any security warning - i.e., in case the security level is set to high. The related page Signing your own macros with SelfCert.exe describes how to sign the macro.

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