{"id":18134,"date":"2025-10-14T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/?page_id=18134"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:09:01","slug":"onedrive-attach-a-file-to-an-email","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/?page_id=18134","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive &#8211; Attach a File to an Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide shows you two ways to attach a SharePoint document as a file in an Outlook email.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Attaching_the_file_directly_from_Outlook\"><\/span>Attaching the file directly from Outlook<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>Outlook<\/strong> and create a new email.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Attach File<\/strong> on the message ribbon.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Browse web locations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>SharePoint<\/strong> or <strong>OneDrive<\/strong>, depending on where the file is stored.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the document you want to send.<\/li>\n<li>Click the document once.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Attach as copy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The file is added to your email as an attachment.<\/li>\n<li>Add recipients and your message, then click <strong>Send<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Attach_the_file_using_a_copied_link\"><\/span>Attach the file using a copied link<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open your <strong>web browser<\/strong>, Microsoft Edge.<\/li>\n<li>Go to your <strong>SharePoint site<\/strong> and locate the document you want to send.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>three dots (\u2022\u2022\u2022)<\/strong> next to the document name.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Copy link<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>Outlook<\/strong> and create a new email.<\/li>\n<li>Paste the link into the email body using <strong>right\u2011click and Paste<\/strong> or <strong>Ctrl + V<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click the pasted link.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>preview window<\/strong> opens.<\/li>\n<li>In the top\u2011right corner of the preview, click the <strong>three dots (\u2022\u2022\u2022)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Attach as copy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The file is added to your email as an attachment.<\/li>\n<li>Add recipients and your message, then click <strong>Send<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"infoSection\"><i class=\"fa fa-info-circle\" style=\font-size:3rem\"><\/i>  This sends a <strong>copy<\/strong> of the file, not a live document. Any changes made to the original file after sending will <strong>not<\/strong> be reflected in the attached copy.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/?page_id=18009\">OneDrive Top Tips homepage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to attach a file to an email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":17466,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"qrg.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,403],"tags":[404],"class_list":["post-18134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-o365","category-outlook","tag-outlook"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18134"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23457,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18134\/revisions\/23457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}