Using the MessageExport Toolbar to Export E-Mail Messages From Microsoft Outlook 2013

MessageExport add-on for Microsoft Outlook helps you convert e-mail messages from your Outlook .pst or .ost file into PDF documents or other image files.  Because Microsoft Outlook is very limited in it's native export capabilities, MessageExport is installed to make it easier to extract e-mails from Outlook.

MessageExport supports Windows versions of Microsoft Office Outlook, including Outlook 2013, 2010, and 2007.  MessageExport integrates closely with Microsoft Outlook's menu system. The functions for the add-on can be accessed from a new Outlook menu tab titled "MessageExport."

MessageExport Toolbar in Outlook 2013

Clicking on the tab reveals the drop down menu.  In the image above, "Export to PDF/A" format is selected.  To convert one or more e-mails into PDF/A format you would first select or highlight the messages from Outlook's mail list, and then click the "Export" button.

Export Button Begins Outlook Email Conversion Process

 Clicking "Export" starts the conversion process, and you may be asked to select a folder to contain the converted e-mails.

While this example shows how MessageExport converts e-mail to PDF, there are many other formats to choose from.  By clicking the drop down list, you can select from 30 more other useful conversion formats.

Choose the desired e-mail conversion format from the list.

While the drop down list and the Export button will be enable users to accomplish most e-mail export tasks with MessageExport, let's also examine the five other toolbar features.

MessageExport toolbar functions

The Wizard function will step you through the process of creating a new export profile that will appear in the MessageExport toolbar drop down list. This is a great way to quickly build an export profile that can accomplish a wide range of specific features. Creating new profiles lets you automate e-mail export tasks and helps you get your work done faster.

Add-Profile Wizard

The Add Profile button is for advanced users. It lets you setup export profiles without having to interact with the Wizard.

Add Profile Button

The Tools button lets you edit the current selected export profile. Use this button if you want to make changes to the way a profile operates.

Access MessageExport's settings

The explorer window button will open a window in Outlook that lets you interact with the Windows file system. You can convert Outlook emails to the selected export profile just by dragging them and dropping them to this file system Window.

Access MessageExport's Outlook file system explorer feature

The Settings button gives full access to all of the MessageExport functions, including registration and error logging systems.

Access MessageExport's settings

Behind the settings of MessageExport are many different options that you can customize. MessageExport add-on for Outlook is capable of accomplishing many complex e-mail export tasks that can make your work with email more productive. 

If you have any questions, post them in the comments below, or visit the MessageExport home page to download a free 15 day trial.

Embedded E-Mail Processing: How to Convert Outlook Email With Email File Attachments to PDF?

MessageExport is a professional tool designed specifically for people who have important work to do with E-Mail.  It integrates tightly with Microsoft Office Outlook, enhancing the user experience with powerful new features designed to make their work life easier and more productive.

Today we released MessageExport 3.5, and we're excited about the new features it has.  One feature was requestd by several customers was to improve MessageExport's handling of .msg and .eml email file attachments (emails within emails).

In this release, we've improved how MessageExport handles E-Mail file attachments that are themselves E-Mails during the process of converting (or bulk converting)  E-Mails to PDF.

Say that you are working on a legal case, and you have just received a "smoking gun" E-Mail message as part of discovery.  This E-Mail that has a .MSG E-Mail file attached to it.  And inside that .MSG E-Mail attachment, is another E-Mail message, that contains yet another .MSG E-Mail file attachment.  And lets also say that each of these E-Mails contain other attachments, such as .jpg images.

If you are the lucky person who is responsible to convert this E-Mail message (which is actually four different nested E-Mails) into a PDF file, it may take you 30 minutes or longer to manually disassemble the entire E-Mail and attachments, re-organize them into a logical structure that preserves their context, and then convert them all into a single PDF file.

MessageExport 3.5 Exports E-Mails That Are Attachments Into PDF Files.

Or, you could just click on the main E-Mail message, choose "Export to PDF" from the MessageExport toolbar, and click "Export."  MessageExport will complete the entire E-Mail to PDF operation for you in less than a minute, including the processing of emails that are themselves forwarded email attachments.

MessageExport 3.5 also includes a re-vamped naming structure, which we call Breadcrumbs" for lack of a better term. Breadcrumbs help to orient the viewer to the content within the PDF.  For example, it may be important to know the order and the structure of the various E-Mails, otherwise how can you tell who sent which file to whom?

Embedded email processing is a powerful new feature for MessageExport. We hope it will help make you more efficient, and your work more delightful.

If you are already a MessageExport customer, you may be entitled to free upgrade.

If you have never tried MessageExport, take it for a 15 day spin. If it meets your needs, we'd love to have you as a customer. Click here to download a free trial of MessageExport.