Can I import .msg files into Word?

[Krissi]

I have hundreds of archived outlook emails in the form of .msg files and I am
wondering if I can import them into Word.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I don't believe you can do that without using Outlook as an intermediary
(e.g., for copy/paste). Word doesn't appear to have a converter that works
on .msg formatted files.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I have not tried it, but on the face of it the Amber Converter
http://www.processtext.com/abcoutlk.html should work?

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[Graham Mayor]

I have now tried the demo and it appears to do what you require.

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Hi, Graham,

Did you test ABC Amber with formatted email .msg files? It seems to save
everything as text -- regardless of settings, as far as I can tell. It
doesn't even reconstitute URLs as links. I tried converting to rtf, doc,
html, even pdf. None gave anything resembling the view from opening the
message using Outlook.

It seems to handle some formatted emails semi-correctly if opened directly
from its reading of your .pst file (except that it doesn't seem to want to
display pictures).

OTOH, if I open a stand-alone .msg file in Outlook, it displays perfectly,
and I can either save as in .htm or .rtf (depending on the original
formatting of the file) or select/copy and paste into Word without losing
anything. A pain if you have hundreds of files, yes. But, unless there's
some magic key to ABC Amber that I didn't discover, it probably won't help
if Krissi needs/wants to preserve original formatting.

Too bad, really. Had it handled formatting correctly, I probably would've
spent the $20. It could've been useful.

Or... did you manage to get it to do more than I could?

 

[Graham Mayor]

I merely opened the application to see if it would convert msg files to Word
format - I didn't look any deeper than that; and I have since uninstalled it
again .

For the odd e-mail I want to put into Word, I would use the method you
suggested from Outlook - but as you say for a large batch of e-mails this
isn't practical. It may be possible using vba in Outlook to batch process
from Outlook, but I have had enough problems recently transferring formatted
Word documents into Outl;ook messages to want to go there

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