Outlook Email to PDF

I was looking for a way to turn Outlook desktop emails into PDFs. In the past I just printed to PDF, but I had a new use case where I needed to attach the contents of emails to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks doesn’t like msg file attachments.
My initial searches on how to make an Outlook email into a PDF turned up programs that were designed to bulk convert emails to PDFs. I, however, needed to have a quick way to turn one email that I was looking at into a PDF. Not a whole folder or PST file. That problem required more digging since most advice to that particular problem is to use a PDF printer. It works, but if you need to do that a few times a day you are using quite a bit of time. Not a huge problem if you have lots of time, but I don’t.
I also tried some code I found to make a macro and using Word in the background, but that wasn’t really quick either and I had some reliability issues.

So I kept searching…

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Making PDFs

I had recently a few requests on creating PDFs, and I thought I would share my thoughts with you.

In our company we almost don’t use Acrobat Destiller or the Acrobat Plug-Ins into Office to create PDFs. We create many PDFs with PDF995 available for free at PDF995.com. It is a two step installer and you will get an advert popping up after each use if you don’t buy it for $9.95, but we like the files it creates. Well working with minimum issues. And fast.

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