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2. Open the Mail app’s App bar and click the
Attachments (paper clip) icon.
Open the App bar by right-clicking a blank part
of the e-mail. When you click the Attachments
icon, the Windows 8 File Picker window appears,
shown earlier in Figure 5-6.
3. Navigate to the file you’d like to send.
For easy browsing, click the word Files. That
fetches a drop-down menu, shown earlier in
Figure 5-6, listing your computer’s major storage
areas. Most files are stored in your Documents,
Pictures, Music and Videos libraries.
Click a folder’s name to see the files it con-
tains. Not the right folder? Click the File
Picker’s Go Up link to move back out of the
folder and try again.
4. Click the filenames you want to send and click
the Attach button.
Selected too many files? Deselect unwanted files
by clicking their names yet again. When you click
the Attach button, the Mail app adds the file or
files to your e-mail.
5. Click the Send button (the envelope icon).
The Mail app whisks off your mail and its attach-
ment to the recipient.
Finding lost mail
Eventually, an important e-mail will disappear into a
pile of folders and filenames. To retrieve it, rely on
the same trick you use to search within any app in
Windows 8: Summon the Search pane. From within
Windows Mail, click the account holding the e-mail
you want to search through and then follow these
steps:
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