Step-by-Step: Sending E-mail Attachments

Here's how to e-mail documents, spreadsheets, photos or any other type of file. The example below uses Microsoft Outlook, but most e-mail programs, even Web-based e-mail like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, work the same way. (Here are instructions for Yahoo! Mail.

1. Open your e-mail program, launch a new message window and compose your message.

2. Click the attachment icon (the paper clip) or insert the file by selecting from the drop-down menu.

3.Browse your hard drive or removable disks to locate the file you want to attach. Click it to highlight the name, then click the Insert button.

4.An icon or message should now appear indicating that the file has been attached.

5.Finally, click the Send button and off it goes!