- #SAVE AN E MAIL MESSAGE AS A PDF IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOW TO#
- #SAVE AN E MAIL MESSAGE AS A PDF IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC MAC#
You just really want to have it look like it does as if you were printing the email on a piece of paper except you have it now in digital format. Maybe you just don't want to strip all the formatting out.
#SAVE AN E MAIL MESSAGE AS A PDF IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC MAC#
Maybe you're sending it to somebody and they don't have a Mac and they're not using the Mail app. This is a great option if you really want to preserve something and not rely on having the Mail app. It looks just like a printout except that it's doing it as a file. PDF is going to act as if it printed the document. It's actually going to open this file up and display in a window. But it's not showing you a message you have in a mailbox or you're looking at on the server. So you're going to get something that looks exactly like it did in the Mail app before. That actually is going to open up Mail and open up a window showing that email. It's not going to look exactly like it does in the message. So a certain amount of formatting is going to be kept in place with rtf. You can see how this link here is blue and underlined. RTF is going to give you some text formatting. But it's not for anything that's remotely complicated. So if you're just trying to save the text of the email, maybe somebody sent you a list of information, this is probably a good option. This isn't going to be good if there's images or if there's nice formatting in the email. It's going to translate everything to text. It's going to give you From, Subject, Date, To. It's actually going to bring it up and here's what it looks like. When I double click on that and it's going to open up in TextEdit. I'm going to hide Mail here and here are the four files. I'm going to save that out and I get my fourth option. But most of the time you're just going to use it as the default in your system. You can hit Show Details and you can actually change things like the size of the page for the pdf to format itself to. Save As for the third one let's do Plain Text and.
Save As and do it as a Rich Text Format and you get. eml is what you get when you select Raw Message Source. But you can change it to whatever you want.ĭot. Notice you get a title here or a file name that's the subject of the email by default. Under Format there's Raw Message Source, Rich Text Format, or Plain Text. I go to File, Save As and there are actually three different options here. Let's say I'm going to go ahead and save this out as a file. Let's look at each one so you can figure out which one is right for a situation. Maybe put it into a project folder for work or something like that. You actually want to take it out or mail and have it saved separately. So you don't want to just put it in a special mailbox or flag it or something like that. Video Transcript: So every once in awhile when you're dealing with email you get a message that's very important or you need to actually save it out as a document somewhere.
#SAVE AN E MAIL MESSAGE AS A PDF IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOW TO#
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