Outlook Tip: Save Emails as .Plain Text - Open in Word

I got this tip from Heinz Tschabitscher who posts weekly Outlook tips at About.com. Sometimes I wish to store or share an email as a Word file. This is easy to do in Outlook using Heinz's tip for this week.

The Instructions from his post at About.com are:

To save an email as plain text in Outlook:

1. Open the desired message in the Outlook preview pane.
• To save multiple messages to one text file, highlight them all in the mailbox.
2. In Outlook 2007:
• Select Save As from the message's Office button.
3. In Outlook 2003:
• Choose File | Save As... from the menu.
4. Make sure Text Only (or Text Only (*.txt)) is selected under Save as type:.
5. Type the desired file name under File name.
6. Choose the folder to save your emails in under Save in:.
7. Click Save. 

That's it. You can now open Word, navigate to the file and open it in Word. Once open in Word, you can save the file as a Word document.

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