> A collegue has filed an important message (outlook 2003) in the wrong
> format (it will only open as a notepad document) and I need to access
> it. Any suggestions on how to retrieve this?
If the message has been saved outside of Outlook in the Windows file system
as a text file and no longer resides in Outlook, then you cannot recover the
original format.

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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]