You're welcome, cdyer.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"cdyer" wrote in message
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WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Compacting, not compressing, only removes wasted space on your HDD. It
does
not affect e-mail that is saved and it doesn't send it anywhere.

There are a couple of ways to save the messages to a CD that is readable.
Create a folder on your Desktop, then in Outlook Express open the folder
with the messages you want to save. Highlight one message, then Ctrl+A
will
highlight them all, (or hold the Ctrl button down while you select only
the
messages you want), Now, drag and drop them to the folder on your
Desktop.
(Easiest if the folder shortcut is on the Taskbar).

Now you can copy that folder to a CD and you will be able to read the
messages on the CD by double-clicking on them.

The downside of this is that messages that have the same subject will be
overwritten. To avoid this, purchase:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~


"cdyer" wrote in message
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hey i have no idea if I am in the right spot or not. I have sub-files
set
up
in outlook express for each "job" i am working on. A couple of hte
jobs
have
ended and I want to save the emails to a floppy disk. I found some
information that said to compress the file. which i have done. the
instruction then say to find the file and save to the disk. how and or
where
do i find the file. outlook express doesn't give me and option to
select
where the file is compressed to.