How To Attach File in Email

    E-Mail (Electronic Mail) is a communication facility in Internet to send electronic mail to reach out to the whole world. Compared with the regular mail, e-mail has the advantage of being more secure and does not distinguish between distance and time.

    One of the fundamental uses of email is to share photos and other files with friends, family, or colleagues. But people who are new to email might not yet know how to attach and send files in email. Here are some beginner instructions you can share.

    This edition of our easy-to-email tech support guides is all about email attachments. We'll cover how to attach a file in both desktop and web email applications.

In all of these options—Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and Outlook—you'll want to keep an eye out for a a paperclip icon, the universal image for attachments in email programs.

The process is pretty much the same for all email programs:

1.  Open a new email message window, usually by clicking the "New Message" or "Compose Email" icon or the CTRL + N keyboard shortcut.
2.  Click on the menu item with a paperclip icon that says "Attach a file" or something similar (e.g., "Attach Files")
3. Browse through your computer's folders and click to select the files/data/folders you want to attach in email. In most cases, you can select multiple files by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on each file.
4. Click the "Open" or "Choose File" or another similar button to attach the file to your email.
5. Then continue composing your email (put the email address of the person you want to send the attachment to in the To: field, add a subject and message in the body, and hit Send).
6. Here are some more specifics for the most popular email applications.

 Gmail

The first is Gmail. There are so many people that use Gmail so i will tell you how to attach file or folder in Gmail.

   The first step is compose a new email in Gmail (click on the "Compose email" button) and attach a file when you click on the "Attach a file" link in Gmail. Find and click on the folder or files you wish to attach, then hit "Open" and you should see the attachment added to your message. In the most recent versions of browsers like Chrome and Firefox, you can also simply drag and drop files into Gmail's Compose window upload an attachment. Then continue composing your email (put the email address of the person you want to send the attachment to in the To: field, add a subject and message in the body, and hit Send).

Yahoo! Mail

    Yahoo! has a similar method of attaching an email. First step,Click on the "New" button in Yahoo! Mail to compose a new message. Then click on the "Attach Files" button that's right under the subject line. Instead of immediately bringing you to your documents, Yahoo! will present you with several "Choose File" buttons. For each file you want to attach to your email, click on one of these buttons and browse for the file you wish to send. After finish attach your file then continue composing your email (put the email address of the person you want to send the attachment to in the To: field, add a subject and message in the body, and hit Send).

Hotmail

    First step,Click on the "New" link to compose a new email. Beneath the Subject line, you'll have an option to insert attachments (a paperclip icon, again)> There are also handy shortcuts for inserting Office documents, photos from the web or your own album, and stuff you can find from bing. The most straightforward method is to click the "Attachments" link. From the Windows Explorer window that opens, select the file(s) you wish to attach and click "Open". After that Then continue composing your email (put the email address of the person you want to send the attachment to in the To: field, add a subject and message in the body, and hit Send).

Desktop Email

Outlook

We're using Outlook 2010 as an example here, but the general process should also work for earlier Outlook versions such as Outlook 2007.

•  Click on the "New E-mail" button in Outlook's ribbon menu (or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + N) to open a new message window. Then click on the "Attach File" menu item (it has a paper clip icon beside it).

•  In the new file browser window, navigate to the folder that has the file or files you wish to attach and click on the file to select it

•  Click the "Insert" button and you should then see the file in a new "Attached:" line in your email. (If you change your mind and want to remove the attachment, right-click on it and select "Remove".)

That is about how to attach file/data/or folder in email.