The option View in Place of the attached a pdf and a Word document to an email is greyed out

Ordinarily, single-page PDFs and images get attached as a default View in Place. When that View in Place is grayed out, it makes me think that at some point in time, you disabled that feature with attachments.

With your Mail compose window still open with its attachments, launch the Terminal application and enter the following with a return afterward:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false

Now, right-click on your single-page PDF or image attachments and select View in Place. Note that word-processing documents and multi-page PDFs will still attach as icons as Apple designed them to do. This View in Place is only for your visual confirmation as it has no bearing on how the recipient's Mail client will display them.

lizc1 wrote:

Thanks for the reply but in your image View in Place is also greyed out so I don't really understand what you're saying.

I have sent the pdf to myself and it arrives as a pdf, as expected. What I want to do is not send the pdf as an icon. I appreciate that most people want to do the opposite but not me in this instance.

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I am saying it is not possible.

if you think it should be different—

Submit your Apple Feedback here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html

single page .pdf you may have better luck. Not multi page .pdf

lizc1 wrote:

were multi page PDF and Word

- I didn’t know that these were never intended to insert as anything other than icons!

Sorry, don't know how else to say it ...

leroydouglas wrote:

single page .pdf you may have better luck. Not multi page .pdf

“always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. “   e e cummings

lizc1 wrote:

I have attached a pdf and a Word document to an email, right clicked and for both, the option View in Place is greyed out.

Why would this be and how can I reinstate it? I want to see the whole of a PDF in my email.

Thanks

Check your settings

Add attachments to emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

View, save, or delete email attachments in Mail on Mac

.pdf as an icon only when composing and adding as an attachment...

and when it arrives—

if you think it should be different—

Submit your Apple Feedback here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html