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See 'What version of Office am I using?' if you don't know what version you're on.

Office 2016 for Mac is fully supported on High Sierra. For the best experience, we recommend you update Office to version 15.38 or later. Microsoft has shared vital information on supportability of running Office applications on newly announced 10.13 macOS High Sierra by Apple.

1. Office 365 mailbox users logging in with Outlook 2016 on macOS High Sierra 10.13 may experience issues performing Duo authentication in Microsoft's modern authentication workflow for Office 365. This may be seen with a variety of primary identity providers (e.g. Azure, AD FS, Okta, OneLogin, etc.) Symptoms include the Outlook application.
2. If you have more basic usage questions with Microsoft Outlook you can also visit the forums at Microsoft Answers. OSX High Sierra 10.13.3, Outlook 2016 16.10.

Attaching files to e-mail

I often want to attach files from Finder to a new e-mail, and I use Outlook from Office 365 on Mac OS Sierra (and now updated for MacOS Mojave).

I know you can drag the selected file(s) to the Outlook icon in the Dock. But this is often an extra action. I just want to right click, and “Share”, or similar.

Apparently Outlook 2016 (Office 365) does not ship anymore with the handy Automater scripts that used to accompany Outlook.

Using Applescript and Automator

After searching around the internet for different options, I found out that using Applescript together with Automator is the easiest way to do this.

In Automator:

• create a new:
  • Service (File->new->Service) under MacOS Sierra
  • Quick Action (File->new->Quick Action) under MacOS Mojave
• At the top right, make sure you select that the services receives selected ‘Files or folders’ in ‘Finder.App’.
• Then from the left Action menu, search for Run Applescript and drag that to the window on the right.
• For the script insert:

• Then save the service (File->Save). The name of the file will be the name in the Finder right-click menu! (I used: ‘Attach to Outlook e-mail.workflow')

Attach menu option available

Now when you go to Finder, select one or more files, and then right-click, you will see ‘Attach to Outlook e-mail’ at the bottom of the menu! Woohoo!

Breakdown

So what does the Applescript do? Let’s break it down.

• When the service is called (from Finder), save the selected files to the SelectedItems variable.

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• Then let Outlook create a new e-mail message in newMessage

• And add all files from SelectedItems as attachments to the e-mail

• Don’t forget to open the new message (otherwise it stays in ‘Drafts’)

• And show Outlook, otherwise it might happen on a different Desktop.

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