Inserting an email message into a word document

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Hello, I would like to create a Word document that is a chronology of emails. I would like to be able to insert into the word document the email as it appears in Outlook ie have the fields 'From:', 'Sent:', ,To:', and 'Subject'. Then it would contain the body of the email. I realise i can cut and paste each individually, but i was wondering if there was a way to automate this process
regards Stuart Chalmer
 
You could check with an Outlook group to see what is possible with vba from
Outlook, but I am curious why you are doing this when Outlook has extensive
e-mail logging of its own?

An answer would be to save the e-mail messages as text, then insert the
files into a Word document. It should be possible to batch process a group
of messages using vba, but I have no expertise in programming Outlook.

The stripmail utility linked from my web site downloads page, will clean up
messages more simply than you can achieve with Word's tools, but that means
cutting and pasting.

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Graham, thank you for your reply.
My reason for wanting to insert email messages into a word document, is because I want to create a chronology or history of email communications between myself and another person. I realise i could print out the individual emails one by one, but that wastes a lot of paper. So i want to create a word document containing all the emails without the redundancy, deleting in the replies copies of the original email. I will then print this document and take it to a person who does not have access to a computer
A friend of mine mrobinson52 suggested as you did that i save the emails (Outlook2000) using Save As... If the email is plain text it is saved as a .txt and if it is html it is saved as html. Then i can use the Insert File... command

This is my first post to these help boards and i am impressed with the help and knowledge here.
regards Stuar
 
If you want to create a history of messages to/from a particular recipient,
create an inbox sub-folder in Outlook and direct all posts to/from that
recipient into that folder using Outlook rules.

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