Contracts, invoices, photos, slides: a lot of work travels as a file on the bottom of an email. The phrases around attachments are short, and they tell the reader what the file is, why they're getting it, and what to look at first.
"I've attached..." is the everyday choice. "Please find attached..." is more formal and a bit old-fashioned, but you'll still see it everywhere in emails to clients and in official messages. With close colleagues, "Here's the..." is fine. And the most common email mistake in any language is writing "I've attached" and sending nothing. Everyone has done it, so the fix is short and nobody minds: say sorry once and send the file.
Phrases
the most natural way to say a file is included
formal; common with clients and in official emails
relaxed, for colleagues you work with every day
owning the most common email mistake
a short note when you send it again
the attachment is over the size limit
sharing a file from a shared drive
the file won't open on your side
asking for a format that opens anywhere
put several files into one smaller package
the newest copy of a document
pointing to what's new
asking them to tell you about a problem
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Practice · 3 min
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Say it today
Use it once in a real conversation before tomorrow. Out loud counts, even to yourself.