How to Save an Email in Outlook

Saving e-mails serves for backing up, keeping associated project/case documents e-mails archived with each other, or for utilizing various search devices besides Outlook's indigenous looking capabilities. To conserve e-mails from Expectation to a Windows folder, follow these instructions:

How to Save an Email in Outlook

How to Save an Email in Outlook 2019, 2016, and 2013:


  1. Generally Outlook home window, pick the emails you intend to conserve
  2. Note: Select a number of e-mails by holding back the ctrl secret while you select them with your computer mouse (or utilize Ctrl-A to select them all).
  3. Drag them to the desktop computer.

Doing it in this manner saves the e-mails out in Outlook indigenous style (. msg data). When you click on them from your desktop, they will open up in Outlook.

If you don't wish to save the emails in Overview style, you can save them as HTML or perhaps plain text:

  1. In the main Outlook home window, select the e-mails you wish to conserve.
  2. Note: Select several get in touches with by holding back the ctrl key while you pick them with your computer mouse (or use Ctrl-A to pick them all).
  3. Choose File (the tab at the top) after that Save As.
  4. Select a style and click Save.

Selecting the layout is one of the most fundamental part because what you want to do with the email hereafter has an effect on the conserve layout. Out of the five formats Expectation supports (HTML, MHT, TXT, OFT as well as MSG), just OFT and MSG sustain conserving any kind of add-ons together with the e-mail. They can both be opened in Overview because they are Outlook native layouts. The OFT is normally utilized for themes, to make sure that a copy of a regularly utilized email can be conserved to your desktop computer, and dual clicked when you require to send a duplicate of that email. MSG is the indigenous Overview style, and if you relocate e-mails from one device to an additional, both of these two styles will need to have Expectation on that particular device in order to read the email. The various other layouts do not need Expectation and also can be checked out either by an internet browser or by a text editor like Note pad.

If this is for browsing (say for a lawful discovery need), you're possibly better off saving the emails as private PDF data, then look those. The Save As PDF add-in will do this. Even better, the Save As PDF Pro add-in will certainly take your e-mails and save them all into one lengthy PDF data, either as a PDF portfolio, or just the plain style of email 1, add-on 1, e-mail 2, attachment 2, and so on. Then all you need to do is utilize the search feature in your PDF reader.

In any case, Overview does not sustain immediately saving emails as they arrive, or saving emails in multiple folders all at the same time. For this you would require an add-in like our Attachment Conserve add-in. It saves emails as well as add-ons. To conserve emails making use of the add-in, follow these instructions:.

How to instantly save emails from Outlook utilizing our add-in:


  1. In Outlook, click the Sperry Software switch.
  2. Click on the Accessory Save add-ins' Overall Settings 1 tab.
  3. Check the Automatic box to begin refining e-mails automatically.
  4. Choose an Expectation folder (like say, the Inbox).
  5. Pick a Windows folder where the conserved emails will reside in the following tab (in the Overall Settings 2 tab).
  6. Check the Enable conserving of emails choice (in the Details Settings tab).
  7. Select one of the 5 personalized styles (MSG, TXT, HTML, EML, and TNEF).

The add-in likewise sustains scanning all your Overview email folders and afterwards conserving email to Windows folders maintaining your Outlook folder structure onto hard drive. To do this, adhere to these directions:.

Just how to save emails from Outlook in bulk:


  1. Click the Sperry Software application symbol generally Expectation toolbar.
  2. Click on the Attachment Save add-ins' Utilities tab.
  3. Click the Process Now ... switch.
  4. Choose an Overview folder (or numerous Expectation folders).
  5. Click the Process Now switch to start saving emails.

This may all be great, but what happens if you need to conserve emails from this sender (or with this topic) to this folder, and also e-mails from that sender to that Windows folder? For this sort of automation, you would certainly need the Accessory Save Pro add-in, which conserves emails and/or accessories based upon rules you develop.