Hello...

Hey, how do I import the pm file that I sent myself into Excel, so I can save them and, you know, actually read them?

Thanks

Dusty

ps - if there's a thread for this, sorry, I didn't notice it!

Why not just read them on the site?

I don't know Excel well enough to tell you how to import into it. There are some Excel experts around; maybe one of them will chime in.

As the regional Excel guru... why, for the love of all that is holy or potentially holy, would you want to read PMs in Excel?

Or are you trying to do something completely different?

~fff - np: tori amos - bofa pavilion, boston-ma, 8.21.05

OK... here's the scoop - my PM file is getting too big, but I don't want to delete them all. So, I noticed you could export them, or so it says... and it says to "import" them back into excel, without say how to do that exactly. So I am trying to figure out how to do that. Exactly.

Looks like this:

Welcome to your control panel

Archive Messages
Please select the archive criteria.
The archived messages will be compiled into a single file and emailed to your address as an attachment of your choice.

Archive from which folder? Inbox Sent Items All folders
Archive messages received in the last 1 7 30 90 365 all days and newer and older
Number of messages to archive 51020304050
Delete messages after archiving? YesNo
Compile datafile as Importable MS Excel datafileHTML page

Try "Open" in Excel. In the dropdown choose "All File Types." Then the file should show up. It might be Tab-delimited or Comma-Separated Value. I sent my Excel data file to my email; I'll be able to check it tonight. But I imagine the instructions above will work.

Another choice would be to choose the "HTML" option rather than the "Importable MS Excel datafile."

~fff