How to Save My Email in Outlook to My Local Hard Drive

Microsoft's Outlook personal information management (PIM) client is the main calendar and email client used by many business users. Outlook is able to efficiently organize and manage communications between different people by offering different modes of display suited to how you work on the computer. When an individual email message needs to be set aside for later, it can be saved from the Outlook email message database and copied to a file on the local hard drive.

Instructions

1. Open Microsoft Outlook.

2. Double-click the email message to be saved.

3. Click the "File" menu in the upper-left corner.

4. Click "Save As."

5. Navigate to the location on the local hard drive where the email message is to be saved.

6. Click the "Save" button.