How to Save Outlook Emails to a File

When you save email to a file with Outlook, you can save only one email or multiple emails to one text file. All the messages are combined into one document.

Other Ways to Save Outlook Emails to a File

If you need to save messages often, there are alternatives to saving a message as a text file. For example:

CodeTwo Outlook Export is a free tool that converts Outlook email to the CSV format. Print the Outlook email to a PDF file to save the message to the PDF format. ThinkAutomation parses messages and saves the information to databases. Convert the email to a Word format to work with Microsoft Word, such as DOC or DOCX. Save the message to the MHT file format, import the MHT file into Microsoft Word, then save it to Word format.

To save an Outlook message to a different kind of file is possible with a free file converter.