Converting Outlook messages

[Howard Brazee]

I need to save a bunch of Outlook messages to a Mac that has Office,
but not Outlook. Is there anything I can do to convert these into a
form that can be read on a Mac?

 

[Evan Platt]

I need to save a bunch of Outlook messages to a Mac that has Office,
but not Outlook. Is there anything I can do to convert these into a
form that can be read on a Mac?

Save as text will work.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Save as text will work.

It's too late now, I don't have access to the Outlook anymore. I
exported as a spreadsheet and dragged the .msg files, so I have to
work with them.

Opening the spreadsheet in Excel shows a mess.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Evan Platt]

It's too late now, I don't have access to the Outlook anymore. I
exported as a spreadsheet

Exported as a spreadsheet?

I don't recall that option in export...

and dragged the .msg files, so I have to work with them.

A MSG file is a e-mail file.

Opening the spreadsheet in Excel shows a mess.

You wouldn't open them in Excel if they were MSG files. Most e-mail
clients should be able to open them.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Exported as a spreadsheet?

I don't recall that option in export...

It didn't make much sense to me, but I decided to try various options
in case the .msg files didn't work.

A MSG file is a e-mail file.

That is correct. For Outlook.

You wouldn't open them in Excel if they were MSG files. Most e-mail
clients should be able to open them.

Good idea. I downloaded Thunderbird. Starting it, I found it
already had messages from 2008 from when I had it installed before. I
guess when I deleted it back then, it didn't uninstall correctly.

I tried dragging the .msg files into Thunderbird. No luck. I tried
importing them, but didn't see the Outlook option. I tried opening
them with Thunderbird, nothing happened. (When I tried opening them
with Mail, they ended up as attachments to a new message).

Do you know of an OSX mail client that opens .msg files?

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison