Dian, The article, "Converting Email to Clean Text Files," was very helpful. Any suggestions on attachments? The steps in the article would convert all attachments to binary then purge the binary bits. Nolan L. Naquin, MCSE Computer Support Technician LOOP, LLC ------------------------------ From: "Dian Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [mso] Re: Saving email from Outlook XP Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:06:26 -0500 Don't know what this conversation is about...guess I missed something. But if you want to deal with email, here's an article you might want to read: Converting Email to Clean Text Files http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=81 Dian Chapman Technical Consultant & Microsoft MVP Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Free Tutorial site: http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html Free Support Ezine: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax/ ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************