Sandra, From my understanding of your e-mail - you want to save your e-mails in some organized fashion so that you can read them later. I have been doing this for years and it is very easy. Rough steps (using Outlook, not Express). Set rules to have mail go directly to specific folders. If you don't want to do this, have all mail come to your inbox and hold and drop the mail with your mouse to the special folders you want them to go into. (I always delete unwanted e-mail immediately upon receipt). When you have many (50-100) e-mails in a specific folder you can then "export" it to a file. This process starts with the "file" menu with the selection of "import-export" You then select "export to a file" You then select "comma separated values (windows)" Then they will ask you for a folder to export Then you are asked for name and "path" top put the new file into. Do this, I usually include a file name such a c:\documents\Family Origins e-mail 8-8-02. This will give you a file that you can open using Word (be sure that all files are shown). The file you want to open will be an Excel file with the name you have given it. Then you do a "save-as" and select "rich text" for the format. - use the same name. You now have a Word document that you can read and manipulate with all the features of Word. I use the "replace command to rid myself of a lot of the unnecessary information. You can use this process to create several files and use the file insert command within Word to combine files into one larger file over time. Don't forget to delete the e-mails from the outlook folder. I use a text search program (Quick Find) to locate strings of information (text) that I am researching. I have over 30,000 pages of e-mails in documents. Hope this helps. Bob Meador -----Original Message----- From: Sandra E. T. Duncan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FO] Saved E-Mail I save E-mail all the time and I have tons saved for [FO] Now I would like to put it all on a "CD" to save, I already have 106 for August Yes I know there are archives but I sure would like to do this while I am still young any help ? SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento,CA http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm all my mail scanned by Norton Below is the only place that will accept attachments [email protected] ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/