The body text of the e-mail message disappears when you add an attachment by using the Attachments.Add method in Outlook 2000

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SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario:

In Microsoft Outlook 2000, you click an e-mail message in the Inbox, and then you click Reply.
You add an attachment to the e-mail message by using the Attachments.Add method in the Microsoft Outlook object model.

In this scenario, the body text of the e-mail message disappears.

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To work around this problem, call the Save method before and after you add an attachment to the e-mail message by using the Attachments.Add method. The following Microsoft Visual Basic script code sample demonstrates how to do this.

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Sub AttachFile()
    Dim mi As MailItem
    Set mi = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    mi.Save
    mi.Attachments.Add "C:\test.txt"
    mi.Save
End Sub

Note If you use this workaround, a draft of the e-mail message is automatically saved in the Drafts folder. This behavior occurs because the Save method explicitly saves the e-mail message in the Drafts folder.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This problem only occurs in Outlook 2000. This problem was corrected in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003.

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