Selectively removing attachments in mail to send

If I am sending a bunch of files as attachments, and then decide I want to remove just 1 of them before I send the e-mail, how do I do that? Clicking on Remove Attachments removes them all, and selecting one and dragging it to the trash does nothing.
Thanks,
Richard

Place the cursor after or before the one you want to remove, and either use the backward delete key or forward delete key to remove just that one.
Ernie

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