Save the e-mail message by closing out of the message and selecting 'Yes' when asked if the document should be saved. Double-click on the file attachment to open it in Acrobat or Reader.Message outside of the reading/preview pane. Double-click on the e-mail message within Outlook to open the.

In order to save any file that was opened in it's native application back to the original Outlook message, it is necessary to follow a specific workflow.

Users cannot edit the attachment and save the changes in the back to the message, they need to save the attachment to the hard drive and reattach it. Now, when attachments are opened from a reading pane or through the Outlook preview, the document is opened as a temporary (*.tmp) file and they are read-only. The WordEditor property is only valid if the IsWordMail method returns true and the EditorType property is olEditorWord.The behavior of saving attachments changed in Outlook 2010. The Inspector.WordEditor property returns the Microsoft Word Document Object Model of the message being displayed.

Use the GetInspector method to get the inspector where you may retrieve an instance of the Word Document object which represents the message body. The Document.ExportAsFixedFormat2 method saves a document in PDF or XPS format. If you really need to save the message using the PDF file format you may consider using the Word object model for that. So, you just need to pass the olHTML value for the second parameter in addition to the file path: message.saveas(os.getcwd()+'//'+name+'.html', ) But you can use the OlSaveAsType enumeration for all available file formats. The Outlook object model doesn't provide any property or method for saving messages using the PDF file format.

Outlook save as pdf