![]() ![]() Some apps allow you to drag directly from an open document into a Mac Mail message. Drag directly from other apps into a Mail message Drag files to the Mail icon!īack to Table of Contents 8. ( Here’s how to put icons into the Finder’s Toolbar.)įinder window with app icons in Toolbar. The advantage is that the Mail icon in the Finder toolbar is often closer to where the file is, a shorter dragging distance than to the Mail icon in the Dock. Dragging an icon onto the Mac Mail icon in the Dockīonus variation: you can drag file and folders to app icons in the Finder Toolbar across the top of each Finder window. Mail doesn’t even have to be open! You can drag one, two, or several icons from the Desktop (or from any folder) to Mail in the Dock and no matter what, Mail comes to the front, a new message is made, and the items you dragged are attached. Drag icons onto the Mail icon in the DockĮasy again. (I use “Moom” to make resizing windows fast and precise– this article tells you all about it.)īack to Table of Contents 7. The only hard part is you have to resize your Mail app’s windows so they aren’t covering the entire screen. Dragging an icon from the Finder to a Mac Mail message Here’s a little screen recording to show what I mean. First, make a Mail message, then find the icon you want, maybe on the Desktop, maybe somewhere else, and drag it into the Mail message, right where you want it. Drag icons into a Mail window from the Finder Insert from iPhone or iPad options via the Photo Browser buttonīack to Table of Contents 6. Then, under Mail’s File menu you’ll find “Insert from iPhone or iPad,” with some pop-out options: With the Share menu, it’s a whole lot easier:īack to Table of Contents 5. After sending, find the converted document and throw it away.Click the paperclip and find your converted document (this can be the hard part). ![]() Save converted document somewhere you can find it.In Pages, convert document to Word or PDF etc.Without the Share menu, sending someone an attachment as a Word document or a PDF is a six-stepper: Using the Share menu in Pages is a real time-saver. (My vehicle registration arrived two days after I wrote this letter– August 31st, 2020, the last day for me to be legal with the old registration.) As you can see, you get more options with the Share menu than you do with the Share button.Ĭonversion options via the Share menu in Pages We start in some other app, and use that app’s Share menu to create and attach the document we’re looking at, all in one step. If you’ve ever had a long Word document that you want to send as a PDF, you can do it in one step with File/Share/Send PDF.Īs with the Share button, we don’t start in Mail. Even Microsoft Word and Excel have “Share” menus under File. Not all apps have one, but when they do, it’s often under the File menu but sometimes somewhere else. It’s a little slow to load the images but it’s a nice way to visually choose an image.Ĭreating an email with the current document attached via the Share button in PreviewĪs you can see, each app does things slightly differently, but the idea is the same: get the document open, click the Share button, and choose “Mail.”īack to Table of Contents 4. If the item you want to attach is in your Photos library, or if it’s a picture you took using Photo Booth, the Photo Browser button might be the way to go. This saves you a second (and third, and fourth… ) trip to the Choose File… box.Įven with the tips, the paperclip method is one of the harder ways to attach a file, because you have to deal with the Choose File dialog box.īack to Table of Contents 2. You can still do the Spacebar thing, even with multiple files (use the arrows at the top left of the window, or click the thumbnails button right next to them. Command-click to select more than one file, if your goal is to attach more than one.This helps ensure you’ve chosen the right document to attach. If it’s a word processing document of some sort, you’ll be able to read it. Click once on a file, then press the Spacebar for a “Quick Look” at the file.Double-click a file to eliminate the need to click the Choose File button.Hard as it is, these three tips will make things easier for you, once you’ve gotten to the Choose File… dialog box: Finding the right one via a box like this is hard. We have thousands, if not millions, of files on our Macs. If that box looks daunting, it’s because it IS daunting. The Choose File… dialog box, the result of clicking the paperclip button ![]()
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