Print All Messages as One File

[Jim Fuchs]

Hi.

I’m trying to capture multiple e-mails (over 27,000) from Outlook 2003 into
one ASCII text file. If I print to Adobe Acrobat, I can easily copy from
there into a text file, but my problem is this: when I select multiple
messages and then print, I have to enter a file name for each and every
message. Is there a way where I can select multiple messages and print
(either to Adobe or directly to a text file) as one continuous file without
page breaks?

Thanks
Jim Fuchs
312-20803143

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

select all, save as text then print?









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[Gordon]

Hi.

I’m trying to capture multiple e-mails (over 27,000) from Outlook 2003
into
one ASCII text file. If I print to Adobe Acrobat, I can easily copy from
there into a text file, but my problem is this: when I select multiple
messages and then print, I have to enter a file name for each and every
message. Is there a way where I can select multiple messages and print
(either to Adobe or directly to a text file) as one continuous file
without
page breaks?

Thanks
Jim Fuchs
312-20803143

May I ask, as a retired Systems Accountant, why on EARTH you want to print
TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND EMAILS?
I can't even begin to think of a more useless and inefficient way of storing
that much data.....you'll be going back to punch cards next....

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

he did not say print to paper... he said print to acrobat. If he has
Acrobat 8 he can print multiple messages to one PDF using the Acrobat addin.
It's actually pretty nifty and everything is indexed so its easy to find.
I'm pretty sure its in Acrobat 7 (I should know, I own it too ) but I
never used it in that version because of stability issues.









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[Gordon]

he did not say print to paper... he said print to acrobat. If he has
Acrobat 8 he can print multiple messages to one PDF using the Acrobat
addin. It's actually pretty nifty and everything is indexed so its easy to
find. I'm pretty sure its in Acrobat 7 (I should know, I own it too )
but I never used it in that version because of stability issues.

But he also mentioned a text file as well, an the only reason I can think of
for sending 27,000 emails to a text file, is to print it. I cannot for the
life of me understand why 27,000 emails should not be stored in a searchable
pst file....

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

I can think of one really big reason for wanting messages stored in an
alternative format - because if they are only stored in a pst then you can
only read it if you have outlook installed. He may want to store them on a
backup system or on a server accessible from the internet and be able to
view the messages from anywhere - and because the messages are stored as
text files, they can be searched with common search tools.









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