How to save email as pdf file in Outlook?

If you are working with Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2007, you will find that there is no build-in in Outlook to change the email to pdf format. You need to convert the email to pdf file by some related add-ins or with VBA code. With the following article, you will easily save email as pdf file in Outlook.

Save email as pdf file in Outlook with VBA code

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Save email as pdf file in Outlook with VBA code

1. Firstly you should select the email that you want to save as PDF.

2. Press Alt + F11 to launch the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

3. Click Insert > Module, then copy and paste the following VBA code to the Module window.

The VBA code of saving email as PDF file:

Sub SaveAsPDFfile()
Dim MyOlNamespace As NameSpace
Dim MySelectedItem As MailItem
Dim Response As String
Dim FSO As Object, TmpFolder As Object
Dim tmpFileName As String
Dim wrdApp As Object
Dim wrdDoc As Object
Dim bStarted As Boolean
Dim dlgSaveAs As FileDialog
Dim fdfs As FileDialogFilters
Dim fdf As FileDialogFilter
Dim i As Integer
Dim WshShell As Object
Dim SpecialPath As String
Dim msgFileName As String
Dim strCurrentFile As String
Dim strName As String
Dim oRegEx As Object
Dim intPos As Long
Set MyOlNamespace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set MySelectedItem = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
tmpFileName = FSO.GetSpecialFolder(2)
strName = "email_temp.mht"
tmpFileName = tmpFileName & "\" & strName
MySelectedItem.SaveAs tmpFileName, 10
On Error Resume Next
Set wrdApp = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
If Err Then
Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
bStarted = True
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(FileName:=tmpFileName, Visible:=False, Format:=7)
Set dlgSaveAs = wrdApp.FileDialog(msoFileDialogSaveAs)
Set fdfs = dlgSaveAs.Filters
i = 0
For Each fdf In fdfs
i = i + 1
If InStr(1, fdf.Extensions, "pdf", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
Exit For
End If
Next fdf
dlgSaveAs.FilterIndex = i
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
SpecialPath = WshShell.SpecialFolders(16)
msgFileName = MySelectedItem.Subject
Set oRegEx = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
oRegEx.Global = True
oRegEx.Pattern = "[\/:*?""<>|]"
msgFileName = Trim(oRegEx.Replace(msgFileName, ""))
dlgSaveAs.InitialFileName = SpecialPath & "\" & msgFileName
If dlgSaveAs.Show = -1 Then
strCurrentFile = dlgSaveAs.SelectedItems(1)
If Right(strCurrentFile, 4) <> ".pdf" Then
Response = MsgBox("Sorry, only saving in the pdf-format is supported." & _
vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Save as pdf instead?", vbInformation + vbOKCancel)
If Response = vbCancel Then
wrdDoc.Close 0
If bStarted Then wrdApp.Quit
Exit Sub
ElseIf Response = vbOK Then
intPos = InStrRev(strCurrentFile, ".")
If intPos > 0 Then
strCurrentFile = Left(strCurrentFile, intPos - 1)
End If
strCurrentFile = strCurrentFile & ".pdf"
End If
End If
wrdApp.ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
strCurrentFile, _
ExportFormat:=17, _
OpenAfterExport:=False, _
OptimizeFor:=0, _
Range:=0, _
From:=0, _
To:=0, _
Item:=0, _
IncludeDocProps:=True, _
KeepIRM:=True, _
CreateBookmarks:=0, _
DocStructureTags:=True, _
BitmapMissingFonts:=True, _
UseISO19005_1:=False
End If
Set dlgSaveAs = Nothing
wrdDoc.Close
If bStarted Then wrdApp.Quit
Set MyOlNamespace = Nothing
Set MySelectedItem = Nothing
Set wrdDoc = Nothing
Set wrdApp = Nothing
Set oRegEx = Nothing
End Sub

Note: This VBA code have successfully tested in Outlook 2007 and 2010

4. Click to run the code.

5. There will be a File Save dialog popping up while the code is running. Select a path to save the file, name it, and finally click on Save button.

6. When the code finish running, the email have successfully converted to pdf file.

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Bulk save multiple emails as pdf file or other file formats with Bulk Save

With Kutools for Outlook installed, you can use its Bulk Save utility to quickly save or export the selected emails to PDF files/Excel files/CSV files or other file formats.

1. In an email folder, select the messages you want to save as PDF, click Kutools > Bulk Save.

2. In the Bulk Save dialog, select a path to place the new files, check PDF format, and you can specify the Save content as you need.

3. Click Ok. Then the selected emails have been saved as PDF files individually.

  Bulk Save emails to multiple file formats

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