Saving messages other than in formats given? i.e., rtf or pdf (html with complete pictures)

[StargateFan]

I get a lot of mail from yahoo groups, in particular some graphics
groups. In it, I get very good tutorials or tips which involve
graphics that explain or illustrate the text.

O2K allows me to save as text or html, but the pictures get left out
of both formats, of course.

The text can be converted to rtf and I can pull the graphics via the
Outlook script to save embedded graphics and I can manually create the
rtf file; or I can open up the html file, and reference the pulled
embedded graphics, but both methods have proven very time-consuming
considering the number of messages I recv that I need to keep in any
given week.

Can anyone advise of a way to deal with this issue? Tx.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can frag and drop a message out of Outlook into an Explorer window to
save it as a msg-file

Another option is to use Word as the e-mail editor and press Forward. You'll
now have additional saving options.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

 

[StargateFan]

You can frag and drop a message out of Outlook into an Explorer window to
save it as a msg-file

Yes, msg is already an available format but not highly portable. Not
everyone uses O2K, unfortunately.

Another option is to use Word as the e-mail editor and press Forward. You'll
now have additional saving options.

Not _that_ is clever. I tested it and this would do the job.

Now, to find the VBA code that would temporarily switch Word to be the
editor, "reply" to the message to get the sender information and also
invoke Word, and then to save to doc, then to take off Word as the
editor.

Thanks, I'm going to hunt htis down. Apparently there's a spot on the
web that deals with Outlook vb code. Perhaps I'll find something
there.

Thank you; I really appreciate the Word tip!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

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I get a lot of mail from yahoo groups, in particular some graphics
groups. In it, I get very good tutorials or tips which involve
graphics that explain or illustrate the text.

O2K allows me to save as text or html, but the pictures get left out
of both formats, of course.

The text can be converted to rtf and I can pull the graphics via the
Outlook script to save embedded graphics and I can manually create the
rtf file; or I can open up the html file, and reference the pulled
embedded graphics, but both methods have proven very time-consuming
considering the number of messages I recv that I need to keep in any
given week.

Can anyone advise of a way to deal with this issue? Tx.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

-----

You can frag and drop a message out of Outlook into an Explorer window to
save it as a msg-file

Yes, msg is already an available format but not highly portable. Not
everyone uses O2K, unfortunately.

Another option is to use Word as the e-mail editor and press Forward.
You'll
now have additional saving options.

Not _that_ is clever. I tested it and this would do the job.

Now, to find the VBA code that would temporarily switch Word to be the
editor, "reply" to the message to get the sender information and also
invoke Word, and then to save to doc, then to take off Word as the
editor.

Thanks, I'm going to hunt htis down. Apparently there's a spot on the
web that deals with Outlook vb code. Perhaps I'll find something
there.

Thank you; I really appreciate the Word tip!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

-----

I get a lot of mail from yahoo groups, in particular some graphics
groups. In it, I get very good tutorials or tips which involve
graphics that explain or illustrate the text.

O2K allows me to save as text or html, but the pictures get left out
of both formats, of course.

The text can be converted to rtf and I can pull the graphics via the
Outlook script to save embedded graphics and I can manually create the
rtf file; or I can open up the html file, and reference the pulled
embedded graphics, but both methods have proven very time-consuming
considering the number of messages I recv that I need to keep in any
given week.

Can anyone advise of a way to deal with this issue? Tx.

 

[Jaime]

You can use OutlookExtract www.outlookextract.com. It let you extract the
emails from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them as msg, eml or htm -
txt. Once extracted you can convert the messages to mht or pdf with the
provided tool (EmailExplorer.exe) and with the graphics included.