This VBA Macro for Outlook will take a selected emails and save it to c:\Temp folder as PDF's
'Outlook Macro for taking selected emails and exporting them to a folder as PDF's. 'Assumes you have Word installed and are an Exchange user. Function CleanFileName(strText As String) As String Dim strStripChars As String Dim intLen As Integer Dim i As Integer strStripChars = "/\[]:=," & Chr(34) intLen = Len(strStripChars) strText = Trim(strText) For i = 1 To intLen strText = Replace(strText, Mid(strStripChars, i, 1), "") Next CleanFileName = strText End Function Sub SaveSelectedMailAsPDFFile() Const OLTXT = 0 Dim currentExplorer As Explorer Dim Selection As Selection Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem Dim obj As Object Dim sPath As String Dim dtDate As Date Dim sName As String Set currentExplorer = Application.ActiveExplorer Set Selection = currentExplorer.Selection For Each obj In Selection Set oMail = obj SaveAsPDF oMail Next MsgBox "Selected Emails saved as PDF to C:\Temp folder" End Sub Function ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP(sFromName) Dim oRecip As Outlook.Recipient Dim oEU As Outlook.ExchangeUser Dim oEDL As Outlook.ExchangeDistributionList Set oRecip = Application.Session.CreateRecipient(sFromName) oRecip.Resolve If oRecip.Resolved Then Select Case oRecip.AddressEntry.AddressEntryUserType Case OlAddressEntryUserType.olExchangeUserAddressEntry Set oEU = oRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser If Not (oEU Is Nothing) Then ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP = oEU.PrimarySmtpAddress + vbCrLf + oEU.BusinessTelephoneNumber End If Case OlAddressEntryUserType.olOutlookContactAddressEntry Set oEU = oRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser If Not (oEU Is Nothing) Then ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP = oEU.PrimarySmtpAddress + vbCrLf + oEU.BusinessTelephoneNumber End If Case OlAddressEntryUserType.olExchangeDistributionListAddressEntry Set oEDL = oRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeDistributionList If Not (oEDL Is Nothing) Then ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP = oEU.PrimarySmtpAddress + vbCrLf + oEU.BusinessTelephoneNumber End If End Select End If End Function ' ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP Sub SaveAsPDF(MyMail As MailItem) ' ### Requires reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime ### ' ### Requires reference to Microsoft Word Object Library ### ' --- In VBE click TOOLS > REFERENCES and check the boxes for both of the above --- Dim fso As FileSystemObject Dim strSubject As String Dim sFromName As String Dim strSaveName As String Dim sSMTPAddress As String Dim blnOverwrite As Boolean Dim strFolderPath As String Dim sendEmailAddr As String Dim senderName As String Dim looper As Integer Dim plooper As Integer Dim strID As String Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem strID = MyMail.EntryID Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set oMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID) ' ### Get username portion of sender email address ### senderName = oMail.senderName sendEmailAddr = ResolveDisplayNameToSMTP(senderName) ' use internal internal Exchange domain address if available If sendEmailAddr = Empty Then ' , otherwise use external smtp address sendEmailAddr = oMail.SenderEmailAddress End If ' ### USER OPTIONS ### blnOverwrite = False ' False = don't overwrite, True = do overwrite ' ### Path to save directory ### bPath = "C:\Temp\" ' ### Create Directory if it doesnt exist ### If Dir(bPath, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then MkDir bPath End If ' ### Get Email subject & set name to be saved as ### emailSubject = CleanFileName(oMail.Subject) saveName = Format(oMail.ReceivedTime, "yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm") & "_" & emailSubject & ".mht" Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' ### Increment filename if it already exists ### If blnOverwrite = False Then looper = 0 Do While fso.FileExists(bPath & saveName) looper = looper + 1 saveName = Format(oMail.ReceivedTime, "yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm") & "_" & senderName & "_" & emailSubject & "_" & looper & ".mht" Loop Else End If ' ### Save .mht file to create pdf from Word ### oMail.SaveAs bPath & saveName, olMHTML pdfSave = bPath & Format(oMail.ReceivedTime, "yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm") & "_" & senderName & "_" & emailSubject & ".pdf" If fso.FileExists(pdfSave) Then plooper = 0 Do While fso.FileExists(pdfSave) plooper = plooper + 1 pdfSave = bPath & Format(oMail.ReceivedTime, "yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm") & "_" & senderName & "_" & emailSubject & "_" & plooper & ".pdf" Loop Else End If ' ### Open Word to convert .mht file to PDF ### Dim wrdApp As Word.Application Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") ' ### Open .mht file we just saved and export as PDF ### ' ActiveDocument.PrintOut PrintZoomPaperWidth:= 72 * 8.5, PrintZoomPaperHeight:= 72 * 11 Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Open(FileName:=bPath & saveName, Visible:=True) PicturesFitPageWidth wrdApp.ActiveDocument wrdApp.ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _ pdfSave, ExportFormat:= _ wdExportFormatPDF, OpenAfterExport:=False, OptimizeFor:= _ wdExportOptimizeForPrint, Range:=wdExportAllDocument, from:=0, To:=0, _ Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, IncludeDocProps:=True, KeepIRM:=True, _ CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateNoBookmarks, DocStructureTags:=True, _ BitmapMissingFonts:=True, UseISO19005_1:=False wrdDoc.Close wrdApp.Quit ' ### Delete .mht file ### 'mht file is good if tables are used, preserves the full file, so keep them both for now. 'Kill bPath & saveName ' ### Uncomment this section to save attachments ### 'If oMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then ' For Each atmt In oMail.Attachments ' atmtName = CleanFileName(atmt.FileName) ' atmtSave = bPath & Format(oMail.ReceivedTime, "yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm") & "_" & atmtName ' atmt.SaveAsFile atmtSave ' Next 'End If Set oMail = Nothing Set olNS = Nothing Set fso = Nothing End Sub Sub PicturesFitPageWidth(ActiveDocument As Variant) ' ResizePic Macro ' Resizes an image Shapes = ActiveDocument.Shapes.count InLines = ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.count oTables = ActiveDocument.Tables.count 'Sets the variables to loop through all shapes in the document, one for shapes and one for inline shapes. 'Calculate usable width of page With ActiveDocument.PageSetup WidthAvail = .PageWidth - .LeftMargin - .RightMargin End With 'Loop through all shapes and lines in the document. Checks to see if they're too wide, and if they are, resizes them. For ShapeLoop = 1 To Shapes 'MsgBox Prompt:="Shape " & ShapeLoop & " width: " & ActiveDocument.Shapes(ShapeLoop).Width If ActiveDocument.Shapes(ShapeLoop).Width > WidthAvail Then ActiveDocument.Shapes(ShapeLoop).Width = WidthAvail End If Next ShapeLoop For InLineLoop = 1 To InLines 'MsgBox Prompt:="Inline " & InLineLoop & " width: " & ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(InLineLoop).Width If ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(InLineLoop).Width > WidthAvail Then ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(InLineLoop).Width = WidthAvail End If Next InLineLoop End Sub