Gmail attachment guides

Gmail PDFs opening in Acrobat or a chrome-extension tab since you installed Adobe Reader? Turn off Acrobat for Gmail, or preview with Attachment Preview.

Clicking a Gmail attachment saves it to Downloads? Often you are in compose, hit the download arrow, or Acrobat took over. Here is how to fix it.

Clicking a Gmail attachment does nothing, errors out, or downloads it? A step-by-step checklist for Gmail in Chrome on Windows, Mac and Chromebook.

Gmail will not show an attachment preview? Try a reload, Incognito, Acrobat settings and Chrome's PDF setting, or preview PDFs and images with Attachment Preview.

Gmail shows "No preview available" when it can't display a file type, or for messages in Spam. What causes it and how to see the attachment anyway.

Gmail PDFs open in a new Chrome tab or in Adobe instead of the preview? The usual cause is the Acrobat extension. Here is the fix.

Gmail won't preview a PDF, opens Acrobat, or downloads instead? Try these fixes in order, from a quick reload to Attachment Preview.

View a PDF in Gmail without saving it. Gmail's own preview for received mail, plus an overlay viewer that also works in compose.

Step-by-step: preview PDF, image and other attachments in Gmail on a computer, including files you are about to send.

Gmail downloads when you click an attachment chip in compose. Here is how to check a PDF or image before you hit Send without downloading.

View PDF and image attachments in Gmail on a Chromebook. Gmail's built-in preview for received mail, plus a free extension for compose.

File-type guide to viewing Gmail attachments without saving them: PDFs, images, Word, Excel, text, HEIC and ZIP, in received mail and compose.

Gmail already previews attachments in received mail. Honest comparison with Attachment Preview: compose, overlay, page counter, long PDFs and Acrobat.