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Saving Outlook & ATTACHMENTS to one PDF (Desperately need help)

Accountant_In_T...
Registered: Sep 10 2009
Posts: 4

Hi, I use Windows XP, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

I'm in desperate need of some help. I'm far from a computer (or adobe) whiz, so please bear with me.

I work for a small accounting firm. I have very few details as to why this is needed, but apparently a legal office we work with needs us to convert several THOUSAND archived outlook e-mails (.msg files, the majority of which have attachments - some excel, some word, some pdf) into singular PDF files. For example, one .msg file with one microsoft word attachment has to be converted into a single PDF, page one being the e-mail message and the following pages being the converted word document. Each individual e-mail and relevant attachments has to be its own single file (not every single one of the thousands of emails in one pdf file). The only thing that outlook seems to be able to do is to convert the e-mail message into PDF with the attachments 'embedded' into the file as a word or excel document - which is not what I need at all.

For me to open each .msg individually, save it as PDF, open each attachment individually, save it as pdf, combine them, would (I have done the math) take me over two years to do at the rate I am going... no one in my office seems able to offer any advice or assistance. If there is ANY way to achieve what I've asked for... even if it involved purchasing software... please let me know ASAP.

Thank you

-Scott

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1.5, Windows
PDF Creative
Registered: Aug 23 2009
Posts: 29
Hi Scott, try this:

* In Outlook click Adobe PDF > Change Conversion Settings and check the box marked 'Output Adobe PDF Portfolio', and a put a check to create an index too.I think that if you get Outlook to make a PDF Portfolio, your attachments will be converted into PDF pages as well.

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Accountant_In_T...
Registered: Sep 10 2009
Posts: 4
Hi PDF Creative, thanks for your response

Unfortunately I gave this a shot (the box said 'output adobe PDF package', not sure if portfolio and package are interchangeable terms) and it continues to save the e-mail with the word/excel embedded in its original format rather than additional pages in the PDF.

I'm beginning to think that perhaps I have to go outside of adobe/microsoft and use some third party program that specifically addresses the problem of converting attachments to PDF and joining them with the PDF e-mail message. It seems to be beyond outlook's capabilities