But neither of these techniques save the messages as TEXT so they can be
viewed without a mail program (eg. in notepad) - which is what you
originally asked for. They are saved in .MSG format which needs Outlook to
view, and also take about 20KB each where the text version is only about
2KB.

Unless this is different in OE than Outlook 98?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James W. Christian
> > hi you gave me a good idea, i was wondering how to get all
> my pcsoft and
> pcbuild
> > mail out also, i found a work around but it seams to work,
> there is a good
> part and
> > a bad part, the good part is, go to your letters that you
> want to save and
> hightlight
> > all the letter's that you want to copy,right click and
> click on (forward
> as attachment)
> > this well link to your mail,again highlight all files,then
> click on file
> and click on (
> > (save attachments) then browse to folder that you want to
> put it in,the
> > bad part is if you have more then one file with the same
> subject name it
> > well not take it well ask if you want to overwrite it i say
> no, out of
> 55letters
> > i had to say no the three of them,i put them in a holding
> folder and just
> > made them #2 #3 #4 and copy and paste in the folder with
> the rest of them
> > i have win98se and outlook  hope it works for you too  jim
> **********************************************
> Jim,
>
> You can do the same thing without having to rename any
> duplicate messages.
>
> -Create a new TEMP folder on your desktop.
> -Resize Outlook so you can see it AND the new TEMP folder.
> -In your PCSOFT folder (in outlook) click 'edit / select all'
> -Right click on the messages, then drag them to the TEST folder.*
> -Choose 'Copy here' to save them all.
> -Now you can cut/paste them anywhere.
>
> * If you have a slower computer, it may take some time before
> you see 'Copy
> here', and then about the same time again before they are all
> copied. Thanx
> for your suggestion.
>
> Alan Thompson

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