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title: "Attach a SharePoint file to Outlook email"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/26258048452/Attach%20a%20SharePoint%20file%20to%20Outlook%20email"
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> ⚠️ The Outlook App is in the process of updating its user interface. The buttons you see in the app may differ from the screenshots on this page.

UConn faculty and staff may attach their SharePoint files to outgoing Outlooks emails. This method is akin to the well-known method of attaching a file to an email.

> ✅ ITS recommends that you instead use the **Share link** option by following this guide: [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26258048401](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26258048401)

> 📝 The method shown on <u>this guide</u> will send an unencrypted version of your SharePoint item.
> 📝 
> 📝 This file will be separated from your SharePoint; any updates made to the attached file will <u>not</u> be reflected in your file in SharePoint. This method uses no more security than a regular, secure Outlook email.

## To send the SharePoint file as an attachment

1. Open the **Outlook **application on your computer.
2. Click **New Email.**
3. Compose your email as you normally would.
4. Select the **Insert** tab.
5. Click **Attach File**.
6. Click **Browse Web Locations**.
7. Select the appropriate **Site** to share from.
  1. If you have multiple Sites listed and are unsure of which is which, click on one of them and you will see the recently accessed files on that Site. That should help you narrow down which is which.
8. Wait a second for a popup window to appear.
9. In the popup window, find the file you wish to share and select it by clicking on the file once and then clicking on **Open**.
10. Click** Insert.**
11. Choose **Attach as a copy **to send a discrete copy of the file.
12. Send the email.