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How to export email to msg file in Outlook?

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In some cases, you may want to export one email from the Outlook to the MSG file in your folder in the computer, how can you handle it? Here I will introduce the Save As function in Outlook to solve this job.

Export an email to MSG file in Outlook

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Export an email to MSG file in Outlook

In Outlook, you can use the Save As function to export an Email to an MSG file.

1. Select the email in the email list, and then click File > Save As.
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2. Then in the Save As dialog, select a folder to place the export file, and give a name for the file (by default, it is named with the subject contents).
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3. Click Save, and then the email has been saved in the folder you specify.
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Export emails to PDF/Excel/Word files in Outlook

In Outlook, the Save As function only can save email as text fie, MSG file, MHT file and HTML file. If you want to save email to PDF, Excel or Word file, the Bulk Save utility of Kutools for Outlook can help you to save multiple emails to multiple formats at a time.

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1. Select the emails you want to export to another file format, click Kutools > Bulk Save. See screenshot:
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2. In the Save messages as other files dialog, specify the folder you want to save the files into, then check the file formats you want to convert emails to. See screenshot:
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3. Click Ok.

4. Now a dialog box comes out and shows how many messages have been converted. Please click the OK button to close it.

Now the emails you selected have been saved as the file formats you specified.
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