{"id":11876,"date":"2018-09-05T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saleshandy.com\/blog\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:51:36","slug":"forward-attachment-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saleshandy.com\/blog\/forward-attachment-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Forward an Attachment in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How to forward with attachments in Gmail has to be one of the most asked questions with the most straightforward answer. The results you get is rarely impressive if you don\u2019t have the right tools. It will be difficult to measure the impact that your forwarded materials, such as PDFs shared as a link, have on the receivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before going into details about how you can measure that crucial impact, let\u2019s first dive straight into how to forward an email as an attachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to forward with attachments in Gmail, a step by step explanation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can forward an attachment with Gmail in four easy steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Open up the email that contains the attachment you want to forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Click on the \u201cMore\u201d tag on the right-hand corner and then click on the \u201cForward\u201d option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Once the new email screen is up, simply enter the email of the receiver in the \u201cTo\u201d line of the email and then write up a few words for the prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Finally, simply hit the \u201cSend\u201d button and you\u2019ve successfully done your job of sending an attachment by using Gmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it! 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