Outlook 2007 = exporting a single email contents to Word 2007

Can you clarify … you are trying to exports the contents of a single email (in outlook presumably) to Outlook?

Chris

Sorry the title gives the game away … what from the email do you want to export and how should it appear in word?

Chris

in response to Chris I want to export from Outlook 2007.  Whenever one clicks on an email and reads it.  But I want to save the contents of this Outlook 2007 email that I just read to a Word 2007 document, just all the contents, either from the Sender's information to the end of that message, or maybe just the contents only.

The scope of what is written to word we can play with … the main concern I would have the now is triggering the macro … calling it from the run menu option is the easiest i.e. a named macro that does what you ask.

Would that work for you?

Chris

in response to Chris,
I think a macro will work very well.  Please give me the steps to stick it wherever I am supposed to glue it.  Thank u very much for your response.

Place the following into an outlook code module:

Sub Q_28302258_1()
Dim wrdApp As Object
Dim doc As Object
Dim mai As MailItem
Dim GetCurrentItem As Object

    Select Case TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow)
        Case "Explorer"
            Set GetCurrentItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
        Case "Inspector"
            Set GetCurrentItem = objApp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    End Select
    
    If TypeName(GetCurrentItem) = "MailItem" Then
        Set mai = GetCurrentItem
        Set wrdApp = CreateObject("word.application")
        Set doc = wrdApp.documents.Add
        wrdApp.Selection.typetext mai.Body
        wrdApp.Visible = True
    Else
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
End Sub

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Chris

In response to Chris, thank u for your code, I have renamed the sub to : OuttoWord, but when I ran it, I got the error as in the attached file.  Maybe I have not done any prerequisites tweaking.  Thank u.
outlook-2007-macro-error.docx

Typo

Sub Q_28302258_1()
Dim wrdApp As Object
Dim doc As Object
Dim mai As MailItem
Dim GetCurrentItem As Object

    Select Case TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow)
        Case "Explorer"
            Set GetCurrentItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
        Case "Inspector"
            Set GetCurrentItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    End Select
    
    If TypeName(GetCurrentItem) = "MailItem" Then
        Set mai = GetCurrentItem
        Set wrdApp = CreateObject("word.application")
        Set doc = wrdApp.documents.Add
        wrdApp.Selection.typetext mai.Body
        wrdApp.Visible = True
    Else
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
End Sub

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Tested the explorer scenario but skipped over the inspector session - I guess when you got the error you had an email open - assuming so this should resolve that issue.

Chris

In response to Chris, I am afraid that nothing happened when I ran the code with an email open.

Hi Chris,
I salute u for your technical knowledge especially in the programming field.  The code worked, it opened word and created a document.  Graphics in the email was rendered a a hyperlink to the web site.
Thank u and well done.
with best wishes and happy holidays.

a walking programming genius.  Thank u for the code.