Outlook 2007: Turn Off Attachment Preview

Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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Outlook 2007 has a new feature that allows you to preview attachments and documents if the handler is available for that filetype. However, some users do not use (or like) this functionality. To turn off Attachment Preview, follow these steps:

1. Click Tools and select Trust Center.

2. In the left pane, select Attachment Handling.

3. In the right pane, under Attachment and Document Preview, uncheck the Turn off Attachment Preview checkbox. If you only want to disable Attachment Preview for certain types of files, leave the checkbox checked and click the Attachemnt and Document Previewers button. From the File Previewing Options window, uncheck the previewers that you do not want to use.

4. Click OK to close the window(s).

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18 Comments -

1. Allan said on October 10, 2008

   Does this really work? I turned off previewer but it still previews the freaking attachment

2. Wazza said on January 8, 2009

   Close: you mean “check” the Turn off Attachment Preview checkbox, not “uncheck”

3. al gore said on February 23, 2009

   yes this works. Thanks as this half ass feature is annoying as heck.

4. SVR said on May 12, 2009

   Many thanks for this tip….I was getting very irritated with it!

5. Karen Holt said on September 18, 2009

   Brilliant! Worked a treat! Thanks for removing the mystery of Outlook 2007!

6. Michi said on October 20, 2009

   do you know a registry key for this?

7. Name said on April 12, 2010

   To Allan (1 year ago): just need to restart Outlook.
   Sooo much better! Thanks for the info.

8. Birfy said on July 15, 2010

   Please close outlook and open it again.

9. Sequoia said on August 23, 2010

   Damn … could they bury that in a more obscure place? Thanks for the tips, works well.

10. not important said on September 8, 2010

    This worked for me other than the check/uncheck thing which was pretty easy to figure out. It’s sad that I couldn’t find out how to disable the attachment preview in the Outlook Help documentation. Sad, but not unprecedented, or unexpected. Thanks!

11. Ben said on September 8, 2010

    I also want to thank you. What an irritating and pointless “feature.”

    One has to seriously wonder what the kids in Redmond are thinking.

12. Aaaaa said on September 17, 2010

    thanks

13. Marknylec1 said on October 18, 2010

    Thanks for the answer – this feature has annoyed me from day one!

14. Sachin Pednekar said on December 31, 2010

    thanks a lot.. its working..

15. Sachin Pednekar said on December 31, 2010

    very irritating feature of outlook…

16. Rory said on January 12, 2011

    Instead of having to open each picture individually, I simply want picture attachments in Outlook 2007 to automatically display below the message (as they dalways did in Outlook Express).

    Please send details on what settings to change to allow this to happen.

    Much appreciated,

    Rory

17. Emmlian_tgv said on April 4, 2011

    works great.
    10x

18. Huyen Nguyen said on November 7, 2011

    Great job!

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