Gmail View attachments – Technology Help Center

Gmail offers this great feature where you can play your mp3 attachment on the go. It is fast compared to any other email providers like Yahoo or MSN.

When you receive an email in your Gmail with the mp3 attachment, you can either playï¿½ it online or download it.

To do this login to Gmail
Open the attachment that contains mp3 files
At the bottom of the message you will see the attachment

You have 2 options either to download or to play the file
Click Download and the file will be downloaded to your local drive
Click Play to play the file on the web
When you click Play, Gmail opens a new small window and it automatically loads the file as seen below

You can Pause the audio and you can forward it by dragging the slide bar and you can increase the volume
Remember you need to install flash player to use this function from Gmail
You can find the flash player here http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash.

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When you receive a PPT or PPS attachment Gmail loads that attachment as a slideshow in your browser.

To view your Microsoft Powerpoint attachment as a slide show

Log in to Gmail
Open the message that contains PPT
you will see the link to view the slide show as seen below

Click on the ï¿½View as Slideshowï¿½ link
Gmail will load the slideshow in a new window
So, even if you do not have Microsoft Powerpoint in your system you can view the slideshow using Gmail.
Attach or forward the email that has the PPT file and view it as slideshow
When you open the slideshow you will see the new window with the options as shown below

Click on the arrow on top of the page to move to the next slide
Right top corner you have number of slide and you can choose which on you want to view
So Gmail is great by offering these type of feature than any other email providers.

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