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Attaching A Folder To An Email

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Zubar | 22:48 Tue 05th May 2015 | Technology
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Hi,
I need to forward a number of emails to the legal ombudsman, but I have no idea how to do this.
I have all the emails in a folder in my emails, so would have thought there would be a way to attach the entire folder to an email and send it?
Is it actually possible to do this ?
Many Thanks,
Zuber.
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Folders are rather strange in that, as collection of files, they don't actually exist! They're a bit like the index pages at the back of a book, which allow you to quickly go to straight to where you want but don't actually contain the relevant pages/files. So you can't email a folder, as such.

To email all your documents as a single file you need to put them into a 'zipped' file (which, confusingly, Windows still calls a 'folder'):

Go to the folder that contains all your documents.
Then go to Organize > Select All. (That will highlight everything in the folder).
Right-click on any file and select Send To > Compressed (Zipped) Folder.
That will create a file which you'll be able to email.
The recipient can then double-click on that file in order to decompress it and see the original document files.
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Methyl's method will work as long as
(a) you're using an email client (such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail) rather than a web-based email service; AND
(b) you simply want to email all the documents as individual files, rather than grouping them into a single file.

i.e. if you do it my way the recipient will receive a single file (such as casedocuments.zip), whereas if you do it Methyl's way the recipient will receive all of your original documents (such as bankletter1.docx, reply1.docx, bankletter2.docx, etc).
Crossed posts!
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Good points, Methyl.

It's also unclear as to how Zubar is accessing those emails. The options available in some web-based systems are far fewer than using some email clients.

It might be simplest to copy the text of the emails into Word documents (or possibly a single Word document) and then email those/that document(s).
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Hi,
I am using Sky to access my emails.
Many Thanks,
Zuber.
Just do it the simple way then;

Copy the text from each of the emails into a single Word document and then forward that.
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