I’ve been using Office 2016 now for quite awhile, and nearly every day I find myself nodding my head in agreement with two new features in Outlook 2016 that are real time savers for me:
- Outlook automatically detects if I was supposed to attach a file to the email, but clicked Send without doing so. It then prompts me with a nice reminder. That has saved me multiple times from sending an email without the attachment!
- Then, when I go to attach a file, Outlook now presents me with a list of recent files that I have accessed or created. No more drilling down through directories for the PDF file I just created and wish to attach. This is a huge time saver for me.
Here are screen shots of these features in action:
Step 1: Create an email and make a reference to an attachment, like this:
Step 2: Click Send without attaching a file, and you’ll get the following notification window:
Step 3: Click on Insert –> Attach File and Outlook will display a list of recent files:
