Converting Outlook Email to PDF with Adobe Acrobat

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How to Convert Outlook Email to PDF Files?

Have too many emails in Outlook and want to backup them as PDF file? You may have learnt that you could directly print these emails to PDF. However, by doing this always leads to the attachments being printed out randomly. However it is quite different with Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat can save Outlook email to PDF files perfectly. It is fully suitable for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010. If you decide to have installed any previously discussed Outlook, you possibly can convert Outlook email to PDF easily with Adobe Acrobat.

On the contrary, if you have tons of PDF files and want to put them to a protable deive for reading, such iPad, Sony reader, Kindle Fire, etc. Although these devices also support PDF files, but as we all know the ePub eBooks have a better display, so you can enjoy a better reading experience. Now the PDF Converter for Mac can help you convert PDF files to .txt, .html, .epub, .doc, .ppt etc. on Mac OS X.

Convert Email from Outlook to PDF Files with Ease

Step 1: Install Adobe Acrobat

The same as Ms office, if you install Adobe Acrobat after installing Microsoft Outlook, a fast entry to Adobe Acrobat is automatically inserted into Outlook. Launch Outlook and then click Adobe Acrobat on the toolbar. And you will see two options: Attach as Adobe PDF & Attach as Secured Adobe PDF.

Attach as Adobe PDF means every attachment, Word, Text, PowerPoint etc, will be saved as PDF.

Attach as Secured Adobe PDF implies you will save document and attachment as secured PDF, meaning these files are protected from opening, copying or printing.

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Step 2: Convert Outlook Email to PDF Files

Run Outlook then click Adobe Acrobat on the toolbar. On the submenu, you can see four tabs. We are the most commonly used is the first and second.

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Convert selected messages to PDF: Under Selected Messages, select Create New PDF or Append to Existing PDF. Choose the email you want to save as PDF and right-click on it. Navigate to "Convert to Adobe PDF" and then click, then type the name of the PDF and click "Save".

Convert selected message folder to PDF: To avoid wasting time, you ought to save every one of the emails you want to convert to PDF within a folder. Then go through the Selected Folders on the tool bar and then select the folder to start the whole process of saving Outlook email to PDF files with Adobe Acrobat.

Once you extract PDF from Outlook Email, they'll be opened in Adobe Acrobat like emails. It is possible to select them to view the entire message and then click the url on the attachment to open up the attachment in another window.

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