HELP! Activate a .msg file

[R Ritt]

My employer (in '03) archived outlook job files evidently by copy/paste the
..msg file onto a WORD doc and then archived it onto a disk. (We do not
archive Outlook this way now; however...) He wants me to activate the emails
from the WORD doc to Outlook in order to sift through them. How do I do this?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If it is still an embedded msg-file in a Word doc, then you will first need
to extract them. You can do this by dragging and dropping them out of Word
into an Explorer folder. Once done, move them from the Explorer folder into
Outlook.

Depending on the amount of embedded objects, you might want to ask in a Word
newsgroup if you can achieve this by using VBA. The fact that it is an
Outlook item is irrelevant in terms of VBA.

 

[R Ritt]

Thank you for your reply. I "dragged & dropped" a few into explorer. Then
went into outlook using the File - Open and located an individual file and it
would not open. What am I doing wrong? Is there another way that I should try
to move them from the explorer folder into outlook? I dropped them into a
folder I created with the project name, should I try to activate the main
folder instead? When I dropped them into explorer, it gave them a "closed
envelope" icon beside it.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thank you for your reply. I "dragged & dropped" a few into explorer.

Are they MSG files now?

Then went into outlook using the File - Open and located an individual
file and it
would not open. What am I doing wrong?

Just double-click the MSG file in Windows Explorer or drag the MSG file to a
folder in Outlook.