Sometimes you want to embed an Outlook email message in a workbook. You may think of copy the email content and paste into workbook. However, after copying and pasting the email message from Outlook in Excel, the message is getting mess and total out of formatting. Actually, you can embed the email message as an object into the workbook as follows:
insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object
insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object
1. Firstly, you need to save an Outlook email which you need to insert into worksheet. Please select the email message in the Mail List in Outlook, then click File > Save As. And in the Save As dialog box, specify a folder for saving the email message, enter a name for the email as you need in the File name box, keep the Outlook Message Format — Unicode option in the Save as type drop-down list, and finally click the Save button. See screenshot:
2. Go to the Microsoft Excel workbook and open the worksheet that you will embed the email message in, then click te Insert > Object.
3. In the Object dialog box, go to the Create from file tab, click the Browser button to find and select the email message that you haved saved in Step 1. After selecting the email message and rerurning to the Object dialog box, click the OK button. See screenshot:
Then the specified email message is inserted into current worksheet as the following screenshot shown:
Note: In the Object dialog box, it is optional to check the Link to file option and the Display as icon option.
If you check the Link to file option in the Object dialog box, you will get an email message embedded in current worksheet as below screenshot shown, and the embedded email can be opened with double clicking.
If you check the Display as icon option in the Object dialog box, you will get an icon embedded in current worksheet as the following screenshot shown, and it also can be opened with double clicking.
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Let me know if this resolves for you!
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Select the cell into which you want to insert your file
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Click on the “Insert” tab
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Click on “Object” under the “Text” group
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Select “Create from File”
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Browse your file
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Select the “Display as icon” check box to if you want to insert an icon linking to the files
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Click on “OK”
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Hi, this worked! … Thank you so much!!
+1 Point (OP indicated your solution worked, SVR’d the answer, but Clippy was MIA)
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Hi, this worked! I tried Display as Icon but the icons it gave weren’t intuitive that it was a link to email. I tried just inserting as link and it appears the same as the pic i sent. Thank you so much!!
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Hi, I’ve embedded various files in word documents before by copying the file from explorer and then using paste special to embed the file in the word document. If I try to do the same with an e-mail .msg or .html file that I’ve saved from Outlook, the Paste Special option in the menu is greyed out. Can anyone tell me how to do this in excel?
Thanks for any help.
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Hope this is what you want.
1) Save the file from Outlook onto the desktop. To do this highlight the mail and click File — Save As.
Then save the file.
2) Open Excel then goto. Insert — Object — Create from File — Browse — Choose the e-mail which you saved on the desktop.
This will insert it into the excel sheet. Re-arrange as required.
jamesvtm
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in my case i wanted to embed links to email msgs in excel file.
in Outlook 2007
- open the email msg you want to link to
- click on «Other Actions», «View in Browser»
- message opens in Browser, click on address, make sure entire address is selected [ctrl-A], press ctrl-C to copy.
- switch to excel file, and select the field where you want the Hyperlink to be placed, and press ctrl-K, ctrl-V, & ENTER.
Limitation: the link points to a temporary directory on C: drive.
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You could use our eFiler add-in for Outlook to help you to do this as eFiler saves emails into network folders as msg files, has a very powerful search tool to help you find them again (always a plus) and also allows you to create links to these saved msg files which you could then copy and paste into your spreadsheet.
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Updated on November 12, 2019
Ever wondered how to add hyperlinks, bookmarks, or mailto links in Excel? The answers are right here.
The following steps apply to Excel for Microsoft 365, Excel 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2019 for Mac, Excel 2016 for Mac, Excel for Mac 2011 and Excel Online.
What Are Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, and Mailto Links?
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A hyperlink provides a way to open a web page by selecting a cell in a worksheet. It’s also used in Excel to provide quick and easy access to other Excel workbooks.
A bookmark creates a link to a specific area in the current worksheet or to a different worksheet within the same Excel file using cell references.
A mailto link is a link to an email address. Selecting a mailto link opens a new message window in the default email program and inserts the email address into the To line of the message.
In Excel, both hyperlinks and bookmarks are intended to make it easier to navigate between areas of related data. Mailto links make it easier to send an email message to an individual or organization. In all cases:
- No matter which type of link is created, it is created by entering the necessary information in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
- As with links in web pages, links in Excel are attached to anchor text located in a worksheet cell.
- Adding this anchor text before opening the dialog box simplifies the task of creating the link, but it can also be entered after the dialog box is open.
Open the Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box
The key combination to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box is Ctrl+K on a PC or Command+K on a Mac.
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- Type a word to act as anchor text such as «Spreadsheets» or «June_Sales.xlsx» and press Enter.
- Select the cell with the anchor text a second time.
- Press and hold the Ctrl key (in Windows) or the Command key ⌘ (on Mac).
- Press and release the letter K key to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
How to Open the Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box Using the Ribbon
- In an Excel worksheet, select the cell that will contain the hyperlink.
- Type a word to act as anchor text such as «Spreadsheets» or «June_Sales.xlsx» and press Enter.
- Select the cell with the anchor text a second time.
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Here’s how to set up a hyperlink to jump to a web page or to an Excel file.
Add a Hyperlink to a Web Page
- Open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box using one of the methods outlined above.
- Select the Existing File or Web Page tab.
- In the Address line, type a full URL address.
- Select OK to complete the hyperlink and close the dialog box.
The anchor text in the worksheet cell is blue in color and underlined to indicate it contains a hyperlink. Whenever it is selected, it will open the designated website in the default browser.
Add a Hyperlink to an Excel File
Note: This option is not available in Excel Online.
- Open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
- Select the Existing File or Web Page tab.
- Select Browse for file to open the Link to file dialog box.
- Browse to find the Excel file name, select the file, and select OK. The file name is added to the Address line in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
- Select OK to complete the hyperlink and close the dialog box.
The anchor text in the worksheet cell changes to blue in color and is underlined to indicate it contains a hyperlink. Whenever it is selected, it will open the designated Excel workbook.
Create a Bookmark to the Same Excel Worksheet
A bookmark in Excel is similar to a hyperlink except that it is used to create a link to a specific area on the current worksheet or to a different worksheet within the same Excel file.
While hyperlinks use file names to create links to other Excel files, bookmarks use cell references and worksheet names to create links.
How to Create a Bookmark to the Same Worksheet
The following example creates a bookmark to a different location in the same Excel worksheet.
- Type a name in a cell that will act as the anchor text for the bookmark and press Enter.
- Select that cell to make it the active cell.
- Open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
- Select the Place in This Document tab (or select the Place in this document button in Excel Online).
- In the Type the cell reference text box, enter a cell reference to a different location on the same worksheet, such as «Z100.»
- Select OK to complete the bookmark and close the dialog box.
The anchor text in the worksheet cell is now blue in color and underlined to indicate that it contains a bookmark.
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Create a Bookmark to a Different Worksheet
Creating bookmarks to different worksheets within the same Excel file or workbook has an additional step. You’ll also identify the destination worksheet for the bookmark. Renaming worksheets can make it easier to create bookmarks in files with a large number of worksheets.
- Open a multi-sheet Excel workbook or add additional sheets to a single sheet file.
- On one of the sheets, type a name in a cell to act as the anchor text for the bookmark.
- Select that cell to make it the active cell.
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The anchor text in the worksheet cell is now blue in color and underlined to indicate that it contains a bookmark.
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Insert a Mailto Link Into an Excel File
Adding contact information to an Excel worksheet makes it easy to send an email from the document.
- Type a name in a cell that will act as the anchor text for the mailto link and press Enter.
- Select that cell to make it the active cell.
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- Select the E-mail Address tab (or select the Email Address button in Excel Online).
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The anchor text in the worksheet cell is now blue in color and underlined to indicate it contains a hyperlink.
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- Position the mouse pointer over the hyperlink to be removed. The arrow pointer should change to the hand symbol.
- Right-click on the hyperlink anchor text to open the context menu.
- Select Remove Hyperlink.
The blue color and the underline should is removed from the anchor text to indicate that the hyperlink has been removed.
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