kc4cop, CoolUtils offer many different converters for different types of email software and setups. Total Outlook Converter is just one of the many products and software converters they have.

L. Cleveland Major, Copying and pasting the email content isn't quite the same. It's always good to use whatever you find works for you or is easiest. But copying the content into another format through copy/paste will produce largely inferior results for larger numbers of emails as well as the ability to create lots of formats without requiring Office Suite to be installed.

Simon , I understand what you are saying, but I can say without a doubt that my results are consistently good ones. And that goes for nearly all my copy and paste work. The only time it won't work as expected is when the original material is formatted in a way that has to be fixed after the copy and paste has been done. This has never happened with email for me; only when I am doing research and I am taken to a site that has this weird way of formatting their information. I'm not complaining about there chosen way of doing things other than to say it makes things a bit inconvenient. But as I have already stated, I have yet to run into this problem with email.

L. Cleveland Major,
A suggestion: install a PDF-printer.
Therefor you don't have to copy and paste the text. Just "print" your mail within Outlook.
I have installed on every laptop, that I have used, a PDF printer and every where I could print from any program the contents and at work/home I could print the PDF.
There are several free PDF-printprogam's. DoPDF is one of them and Foxit Reader for PDF have also a printer in it.(they like if you buy the program, but the free one is enough.)

Ootje, I'm good with what I have. The main thing I do with creating PDF documents is my own art application tutorials. I am in the process of authoring one for Wings 3D 1.5.4 at this time, concerning UV mapping. I am an artist and I believe in sharing my knowledge in and of the applications I use on a regular basis. Word and PowerPoint are both excellent tools for that process, and both can save directly to PDF, as well as many other formats. So as you can see, other software is not needed for what I do. I prefer to do all my authoring work in one or the other application, and taking screenshots to add for visual reference on what is being discussed.

L. Cleveland Major, You wrote
"can copy and paste any email I receive"
It was just a suggestion to work a bit easier for this step(copy/paste). But now I read that a lot of time you already work in Word/Excel/PPT and these program can make PDF.
I often help people and yesterday I helped someone with a PDF. This person first clicked on the link and the PDF opened in a reader and from there it was saved. Just with a right-click with the mouse on the link would save the PDF directly.

Ootje, Yes that's correct. Even if a person does not have a PDF reader installed, (though I cannot for the life of me understand why they wouldn't when there's a perfectly good one available from Adobe for free), they can still right click on a document and save a pdf to their hard drive.

Franz Huber, The defects are specific to your situation it seems as the majority of users and myself have no issues with the various formats. Email the support team at CoolUtils and they'll help figure out why things aren't working for you.

Franz Huber, Thank you for your testing! Would you send us the source file to support at coolutils . com? We will investigate the issue and fix it asap.

Salvia, Correct, or better yet - don't start the program until you've run the Activation executable.

Simon ,
Ta.
True, run setup but do not allowed to open, run activate, now let setup finish and it opens as registered.
I was just trying to make a more general statement; it normally has to re-open the program to check if it is registered.

Someone marked your comment down what can you do when people who don't know what they're talking about mark you down.
It happens all the time now this site is more accessible to mobile users; instead of commenting they just mark people down.
So bad at times rather pointless making comments; as reflected in the number of old regulars who no longer comment.

pluimpje, I'm not sure how this is relevant to Total Outlook Converter

Simon , I believe he's saying he's smart enough to convert his emails to PDF's without Total Outlook Converter & couldn't use it anyway since he's never had .PST files to begin with and he's telling us how to do it too.

That's right Simon, i could have said nothing but when there are freeware programs able to do similar things and not limited to, in this case .PST files, i just like to mention them. And i wanted to reply to another posting at the same time.

Thanks to you i have looked closer into the matter and if you have windows 10, you can print your mails directly to pdfs by selecting 'microsoft print to pdf' as a virtual printer (already build in into windows 10) http://www.msoutlook.info/question/643

Peggy, I hate to sound the way this is going to sound ..but you have to play with it a little. Open the app ,run the activate.exe file then it should tell you to close the app and reopen to show the app is registered .i had to do that a few times then came up as registered...

DaveInTrinity, You need to run Activate.exe after restarting your machine. Don't open Total Outlook Converter after restarting - until you have run Activate.exe

Simon ,

Thank you for your help in registering/activating this software. I just tried restarting the PC. No go. I have tried everything I can think of. The app just will not activate. I have activated many programs in the past through GAOTD. I guess this one was not meant to be for me. It looks like something I could really use, too.

Thanks again.

Dave In Trinity

DaveInTrinity, Drop CoolUtils an email for assistance using the Support button on their website

Plutchok Jonathan, It will always show the "buy now" button go to help /about then you depend on that ,you should see "Coolutils Giveaway" This is a very nice app ,I have Outlook and it does everything it claims...

Plutchok Jonathan, You need to run Activate.exe after restarting your machine. Don't open Total Outlook Converter after restarting - until you have run Activate.exe

Apparently, some commenters below say it's activated if the Help > About box says "CoolUtils Giveaway." I hope that's correct, but it indicates really bad user interface programming. And it would have been nice if either the publisher or GOTD had replied to the numerous questions about activation and explained the situation.

Jonathan Plutchok, Their support is open for any questions regarding this.

Jonathan Plutchok,
really bad is the abyssmal understanding of some folks as to how the software gets registered.
No intelligent programmer wants to adapt a one-day giveway to suit such users who stumble over a simple sentence. Hopefully you have no problems in working with Outlook.

Sigrid.DE , Giveaway of the Day are the ones who created the activation process for the promotion. If you purchase any CoolUtils product from them directly, the activation process is very different and simple.

Sigrid.DE , I am trying not to take offense at your implication that I have an abysmal understanding of how software gets registered. I have been working for 25+ years in software companies large and small, and ama GOTD user for many years. And I work expertly in Outlook inter alia. Also, I don't know what "simple sentence" you think I stumbled over. To register T.O.C., I followed all the directions carefully, and the usual GOTD practice of running Setup, then Activate, and only then launching the program. The popup box said registration succeeded. So if that's true, the programmers should have made the "Enter Registration Code" option on the Help menu unavailable (grayed out or otherwise), and should have added a "Registered to..." statement in the About window. I am not the only person who was confused because the program gives no clear indication that it is registered. If you actually know anything about intelligent programming, I expect you to agree.

Plutchok Jonathan,
The text file was the very simple sentence which caused such vast confusion.
I do not have to read very carefully, nor puzzle anything out,
the whole process is what an 8 yr old is easily capable of.
Never mind what YOU expected to find. It says what it says and that is what counts. If you insist on a personal licence number in your name then go and buy. I'm sure Cool Utils would not object.
This particular software is aimed at users with a reasonable degree of intelligence, because a) not for free, b) not particularly innovative or overly user-friendly GUI, c) just one tool within the Microsoft Office Suite.
I decided to subscribe to Office 365 for two reasons, i.e being familiar with the key programs but mostly for the 1 Terabyte cloud space included in the price.
I have no personal licence key for the whole package, I'm auto logged in for convenience and it greets me by my hushand's first name because the credit card is in his name.
So what is your point? Used to be, should be?
The times are not what they used to be and quite frankly GOTD is also not what it used to be.
I just felt sort of irritated by the pointless wails from people who either did not appreciate the usefulness of the software or were so offended at a slight blemish that the rest of the world for sure had to know about it.
But knowing your way around MS OUTLOCK I wonder if you have also stumbled over the missing STORE add-on (icon or whatever) in Office 2016. Not that I was really missing it but a mate of mine questioned me about the greyed-out thing. My first thought was that it may not be automatically activated, however, even 3 curses sent over to Munich (Muenchen) my local Microsoft place, would not make the Store link come alive.
Greyed out or not, hardly worth the drama. One is for free and the other the giveaway with the cloud store. You raise a ticket with Cools and I try my luck with the other company.
My bet lies with you getting an answer and me a link to the Office help files.
Matter solved?

Sigrid.DE, I'm sorry I don't have time to try to understand, much less answer, every point in your rambling and largely incoherent reply. Unlike you, I will try to stay on-topic so I will just say this:
(1) My clearly stated point was that T.O.C. should indicate unambiguously that it is registered.
(2) I wrote my comment to seek help in figuring out if it was registered, not just to complain.
(3) I followed the activation instructions correctly.
(4) I have not upgraded to Office 2016 or Office 365 yet.
(5) I did get a helpful answer from CoolUtils and it appears that T.O.C. is indeed registered.
I now consider the matter closed too.

Don,

I experienced the same activation fail, until I exited the application, THEN ran the activation executable.

After a re-start of the app. it showed is was register under "Coolutils Giveaway" under "help/about".

I've run activate.exe at least twenty times now and still doesn't show registered. I saw where someone else was successful after several tries. I have other stuff to do and have to give up on it for now.

Don, download and open the app then his the Active exe that was downloaded with the zip file . You may have to repeat a couple of times,worked for me..

Don, You need to run Activate.exe after restarting your machine. Don't open Total Outlook Converter after restarting - until you have run Activate.exe

Don, Send us an email via https://www.coolutils.com/Contact and we will send you the regular key. GAOTD team have to create a complicated way of registering the apps that should be valid for 1 day only. If you contact su - Coolutils - directly, we will just send you a free key.

Is there a proper sequence to Activate the application?

It seems that mine was Registered, it just still happens to show the "Enter Registration Code" under the the "Help".
So, if it displays "Coolutils Giveaway" under "help/about", then it is Registered.

Gil, You need to run Activate.exe after restarting your machine. Don't open Total Outlook Converter after restarting - until you have run Activate.exe

The buy button always appears. You can check if it's activated by looking at the Help -> About window - the red text should say CoolUtils Giveaway.

Simon , if you check out the responses I posted, you will see I had already Registered it.

Gil, I saw which is great. I was clarifying how the registration process changes the appearance of the software

Simon , I am sorry M8, Thanks for the information.
Cheers

Sheila, This giveaway is for Total Outlook Converter, and the Viewer is a separate free tool which only allows you to open and view Outlook emails.

Injeun, They have Total Thunderbird Converter for that.

Mothman, PDF is just one of the many file formats you can convert your emails to with Total Outlook Converter.

Rames Singh, You need to run Activate.exe after restarting your machine. Don't open Total Outlook Converter after restarting - until you have run Activate.exe

Thanks for the prompt response, but your suggestion did not work.

Mike,

My experience also... installed without a hiccup, activation was a little slow but did activate without needing to contact anyone.

The interface was not that far different from the Outlook I use (v2013), so was pleased (contrary to what someone else posted regarding distaste abut the UI).

I did only test the "doc" output, so my testing was limited, but I would count this as a win for a free non-cost app addition.

noseitall,
It is possible to access the PST-files.
It did use Outlook 2013-64 in a Win10-64 Pro and opened the PST in WinXP-32 with today's program

Ferdinando, You should contact their support team to find out what the issue is there.

Ferdinando, I made a Cameyo portable of the giveawayoftheday on a virtual XP 32 and ran that portable on a real W10 64 desktop. I tested it on an old .pst-file of a project and it produced a perfect single pdf containing all the mails of that project.

So I am satified with this software. Since I retired I do not have a complete MS Office, so to read my old .pst-files I have to rely on software like that was given away today.

Ferdinando, send us your file for our inner testing to support at coolutils . com. In return we will send you our Cooltuils Bundle that contains all our file converters absolutely free. We do want to make our apps better.

Rene, A few months ago Total Mail Converter was available on Giveaway of the Day

Simon , That must have been nice :) -- maybe what has gone around may come around again one day .

goo, CoolUtils have only appeared on GOTD once before. I would presume they're getting a feel for how the promotions go before considering further promotions.

goo, Right you are! Drop us an email saying that you are from GAOTD https://www.coolutils.com/Contact and we will offer a 20% discount to any Coolutils app you choose.

ricohflex, .

Just another serious issues with XPs system or something...

If someone can only "Wake Up" Bill Gates and Microsoft that his/their 8.1 to 10 proposal is way... ..at the end of software(s) creations.

ricohflex,
Installed and ran no problems in XP.
From what I can gather if it runs okay in 2000 it should run in XP.

ricohflex, Windows XP is definitely supported it's just missed from the list. All Windows versions since 2000 are supported except ME.

insomnia sat ',
Another serious issue??
Not supporting XP means that they are no longer issuing patches regarding security etc (unless you modify registry).
The only serious issue this leaves is that XP is more vulnerable to hacking and that a few programs use functions that are not available in XP and they will not run.

ricohflex, 2003 (or server 2003) is the same equivalent to Windows XP, so XP is supported, they just put it in the server form instead.

insomnia sat ', Bill Gates left Microsoft when Vista was released. He has nothing to do with Microsoft today, not other than a temporary advisor on and off, but he isn't involved in any decisions anymore.

Rather strangely it includes your Calendar and Contacts, but not the Notes, which as they are simple text files seems an extremely annoying omission (especially as iTunes trashed my Notes when iOS9 came out so getting at old versions is handy).

I opened a PST file, looked around and closed the program again, then compared the file with a copy and it was still identical.

It automatically opens the last PST file you had opened when you start it, or if not available the main Outlook file. You can open another file at this point, but if you close the application while it's processing the file it takes a long time for it to actually go away, I think it completes the opening first (I actually killed the process after 5 minutes waiting, the Window goes away immediately).

Rather worryingly (??) it says "Please Close Outlook" when starting, but carries on regardless (also regardless of whether you are opening Outlook's PST file or an old one). Is there an issue there or not?

JohnL, Outlook locks the PST file when in use, so if you don't close it then there's a possibility that Outlook tries to update the file and the converter won't immediately show those updates.

JohnL, They take suggestions for new features - drop them an email.