"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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I did several searches in the /Clients folder and moved those emails
to a /Court folder. I have 472 items so far.

I then selected that folder (/Clients) and copied the contents (472
items) to a temporary folder. (I don't have any blank DVDs at the
moment to test with.) It now contains 472 items with an extension of
".msg".

When I double-click on any of those items, they open up in some kind
of an Outlook browser. If I open them with Notepad, they display with
a lot of unprintable characters.

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Office 2007 Pro on WinXP


Don't have OL2007. In OL2002, use the "File - Import and Export" menu
to export to a file. Pick a format usable to you outside of Outlook,
like CSV (comma-separated values) which is a text file that, for
example, you can open in Notepad or Excel.