If the message contents isn’t indexed, then you have to rely on searching by file name alone. It’s easy to save a message to a single file finding it again later can be more difficult.Īny message you save should be found using the Windows Search feature.

There’s also no simple way to export a whole conversation or thread to a document. msg format has never been expanded to include multiple messages a thread or conversation.MSG only works for Windows. That makes it harder than necessary to make include a message in a Word document (as an example or evidence of an email exchange). No simple way to export complete emails to Word. No ‘Save to PDF’ choice to make a searchable PDF, just like Word, Excel or PowerPoint. We’ll show you many different options but not all of them are useful. One thing became clear as we wrote this article, the save/export options from Outlook suck. It’s now added making the count ’15 ways’ Sucks, totally blows We’ve left the most obvious one until last on our list.ġ4 15 ways Thanks to Tom B for a good workaround for copying an entire email into Word etc. Others can be used to save many messages in the one file. Some options work for a single message only. One Outlook message or many? Compatible for many people or not? Easy to search or not? Which one you choose depends on your needs. eml.There are many ways to save an Outlook email or other items to a separate file. Your browser may ask you which extension you wish to use.Open the email message you wish to download.You may use this method if your email account is configured to Gmail as a client. Ensure the 'Format' is set to All Files.Then click on Save As > File from the drop-down menu. (This guide is using Thunderbird for Mac Version 60.4.0 64-bit) You may use this method if your email account is configured to Thunderbird as a client. Ensure the 'Format' is set to Email Message.Click on the email message you wish to download.If you find this to be the case for you, we recommend using Horde or Roundcube Webmail as an alternative. The feature to export an XML file has been removed for certain versions of Outlook.

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