Hello Steve, Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:20:32 AM, you wrote:
> This is a question about a situation at my job. > The IT department does very strange things here. Stuff will work, > then they 'improve' it and then issue a workaround because things > don't work anymore. > Currently we are using Outlook 2003 SP3, mainly because IT got it > free. It broke a few processes mainly because we have an older > version Office. They didn't upgrade Word, Excel, etc because that > would have cost money. Now the Legal department has gotten involved > and suddenly saving messages in Outlook format for more than 1 year is > now against company policy. Now we have 6 months to convert all .msg > files to either .html or .txt or .rtf and delete the original or IT > will delete them for us (whether they are converted or not). > Of the 3 formats, the only one that will preserve attachments without > the extra step of saving them separately is .rtf. Of course you know > that the old Outlook always worked in rtf but the new Outlook always > worked in html. > My issue is with converting the html files so that you preserve > attachments. The IT work around forces you (or more likely Outlook > forces you) to convert an html file to text first, only then do you > have the option to convert to rtf. In the process, although you do > preserve the attachment but the formatting is lost. Inline responses > that used to be in color are now more difficult to see and God forbid > if you actually had a table in there. > So after all this preample, is there a way to convert directly from an > html format in the .msg files to rtf? > Just for reference, the IT work around is to open the .msg file, > Edit-Edit Message-Format-Text (the only options shown are text and > html), the again Edit-Edit Message-Format-Rich Text. > I've only have just over 3000 messages to go.... > Thanks....Steve This sounds retarded. A lot of work to save a file that could just be left the way it is and it would be fine. Why must they be rtf? If it's all about attachments and, while not mentioned, I assume these attachments are threaded emails or some document format, why not just leave them as html? Seems like this is being overly complicated. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
