Question re: Printing Emails to PDF

[Rob Benz]

I have 1,500 emails that I dragged out of Outlook, and into a Windows
Explorer folder and very tediously renamed exactly the way I want them named.
Now, I need them all converted to PDF.

When I select all, right click and choose "Convert to PDF", Adobe dutifully
tries to convert them all, but it doesn't read their Windows Explorer file
names...it automatically inserts a default file name "Memo style.pdf" in a
file save dialog, for each and every email. This obviously won't
work...horrors! I'll have to rename them all, yet again! And I certainly
don't want to have to sit her for two days responding to 1,500 save dialogs.

If I put them back into Outlook and try PDF'ing them, Outlook obnoxiously
converts them all back to using their email subject as file name....which
won't work because the subject lines are way too long...they cause path
problems when saved. (That's one of the reasons why I renamed them in the
first place.)

How can I get these emails PDF'd using their new Windows Explorer file
names, without tediously opening every one and re-typing their desired file
names all over again, yet another 1,500 times?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

That will be a problem for abode to handle, not outlook. You can reduce or
change the subjects in Outlook - I'd try that route and see if abode accepts
it.

Which version of Acrobat? If a newer one, would a package work? That puts
all the messages in one big (and searchable) PDF.

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