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When you attach a document to an outlook email, a copy of the document is created and stored somewhere. You can obviously link to any location in the body of outlook. A hyperlink to a local document will not be useful to a recipient on another machine (without access to the local drive).

But, is there a way to hyperlink to an attached file? I don't think that there is any native way to do this, but is there any possible solution?

If it matters, the email will only be read by outlook. (i.e. intra office).

Equitable answered 25/4, 2016 at 23:5 Comment(1)
Please don't double post.... superuser.com/questions/1069741/link-to-outlook-attachment – Geibel
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Sure, you can refer to an attachment by its content-id. Look at the code below setting the <a> tag in the HTML body and the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property on the attachment:

set msg = Application.CreateItem(0)
msg.To = "[email protected]"
msg.Subject = "test link"
msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>click <a href=""cid:attachCid"">here</a> to open attachment</body></html>"
set attach = msg.Attachments.Add("c:\temp\test.txt")
attach.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F", "attachCid"
msg.Send
Fitment answered 25/4, 2016 at 23:18 Comment(3)
Amazing. I love this site. – Equitable
Doesn't work in latest -- it will ask you what program you want to open cid: links with when you click the link. Guess this is no longer supported by outlook. – Herrin
It absolutely works. Start a new thread and post your code. And it is not a link above - it is a DASL property name. – Fitment
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Using this code

Set msg = Application.CreateItem(0)
msg.Display
msg.To = "[email protected]"
msg.Subject = "test link"
msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>click <a href=""cid:attachCid"">here</a> to open attachment</body></html>"
Set attach = msg.Attachments.Add("c:\temp\test.txt")
attach.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F", "attachCid"

As BrainSlugs83 wrote, when I run it and click on the link "here" in the mail body, I get a security notice and then I cannot continue as no fitting app is found to open the cid: link.

Steger answered 18/3, 2022 at 15:32 Comment(1)
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