It appears to be a complete rebuild of the Mac email client, geared towards Office 365, but the question administrators will be pondering is whether important features in the existing Outlook will ever appear in the new one. The history of Outlook on the Mac is inglorious. Microsoft and Mac go back a long way. Outlook 2016 for Mac, the latest iteration of the email and calendaring app, is a worthwhile upgrade for existing users. But if you don't already use Outlook, the new edition probably won't offer.
Microsoft’s Outlook is a popular desktop email client application which can be used not only on the Windows operating system but also on Apple’s MacOS (by the name Outlook for Mac).
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It’s easy to handle single or multiple emails accounts in Outlook including those of Microsoft Exchange and web email services.
In this article, we’ll guide you through the methods for downloading Outlook email items and folders to Windows desktops in some popular file formats.
Download Emails to Computer
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- Open Microsoft Outlook.
- Select Email Messages.
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Note: For selecting multiple email messages, Press & Hold CTRL and select emails.
- Click on the File tab – top left in the menu bar.
- Click Save As.
- Now, browse for a path to save the email message(s).
- Assign the text file a name.
Note: For individual emails, you also have formats like Outlook Message Format – Unicode (.msg), Outlook template (.oft), HTML (.htm/.html), and MHT (.mht).
- Click on Save button to download/save the select email message(s).
Download Outlook Folders to Computer
For downloading/saving selected Outlook mailbox folders to the PC, the steps are slightly different:
- Open Outlook desktop email client.
- Click on the File tab.
- Click Open & Export.
- Select Import/Export now.
- Select Export to a file and then click Next.
- Select Comma Separated Values and click Next.
- Select specific mailbox folder(s) and click Next.
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Note: For demonstration, we’ve chosen the Inbox folder, which by default carries all received emails unless archived.
- Assign a name to the file, browse for a path to save it and click Next.
- Click Finish.
You’ve downloaded/saved the selected mailbox folder successfully.
Download/Save Email as Word file
For downloading/saving Outlook messages in word format, first you need to save Outlook items in HTML file later open the HTML file with MS Word and then save the file as a Word document.
Steps are as follows:
- Open Microsoft Outlook.
- Select email messages.
- Click on the File tab.
- Select Save As.
- Assign the file with a name and browse a file saving location.
- Form the Save As type list, select HTML and click Save.
- Right-click on the HTML file click Open With and select Word 2016/2019.
- Again, click on the File tab, click Save As, and select Word Document (*.docx),
- Click Save.
Download/Save Email as PDF
Saving Outlook email messages in PDF format is not possible directly; the first step is saving email messages as HTML file and then, saving the file as PDF using Microsoft Word.
Follow the below steps:
Follow the below steps:
- For saving the email messages in HTML format file, perform step 1 to 6 of the section Download/Save Email as Word.
- Now, right-click on the HTML file, select Open With, and choose Word 2016/2019,
- Click on the File tab.
- Click on Print and select Microsoft Print to PDF.
- Assign the file with a name and Browse for a file save location.
- Click Save.
How to access inaccessible Outlook PST emails?
While saving email message(s) or exporting specific mailbox folders on local storage, sometimes the file carrying the items turns corrupt or damaged due to many reasons, which puts the data on high risk.
To fix the issue of Outlook file corruption & damage, selection of a right tool plays a decisive role.
In such situations, we suggest downloading Kernel for Outlook PST Repair tool.
Use Kernel’s PST recovery tool to fix file corruption or damage issues. It has no restriction on file size and imports single or multiple corrupt PST file(s) at once.
Conclusion
Above methods of downloading/saving/exporting the email items or folders will help you in different scenarios as per the need, and if file corruption or damage issue occurs in between or suddenly, Kernel for Outlook PST Repair is the best fix.
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Summary
This article contains information about the compatibility of Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Apple iCloud.
Outlook for Mac does not support Apple iCloud calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) synchronization.
Outlook for Mac does support iCloud Mail. For steps on how to configure your iCloud email account in Outlook for Mac, go to the More Information section of this article.
More information
To configure your Apple iCloud email account in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, follow these steps:
- Start Outlook for Mac.
- On the Tools menu, select Accounts.
- Select the plus (+) sign in the lower-left corner, and then select Other E-mail.
- Enter your E-mail Address and Password, and then select Add Account.NoteThe new account will appear in the left navigation pane of the Accounts dialog box. The Server Information may be automatically entered. If not, follow the remaining steps to enter this information manually.
- Enter one of the following in the Incoming server box:
imap.mail.me.com
(forme.com
email addresses)mail.mac.com
(formac.com
email addresses)imap.mail.me.com
(foricloud.com
email addresses)
- Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Incoming server box.
- Enter one of the following in the Outgoing server box:
smtp.mail.me.com
(forme.com
email addresses)smtp.mac.com
(formac.com
email addresses)smtp.mail.me.com
(foricloud.com
email addresses)
- Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Outgoing server box.
- Select Override default port under the Outgoing server box, and then enter 587 in the Outgoing server port text box.
After you have entered the incoming and outgoing server information, Outlook for Mac will start to receive your email messages.
Note
You can select Advanced to enter additional settings, such as leaving a copy of each message on the server.