This tutorial will help you summarize messages to save them in archival form.

NOTE: If you click, hold, and drag an email message from the mailbox window to your computer desktop to save it, a link will be created and the message will not be saved as a text document.

1. Click to highlight the message you want to archive (save as a text document).

2. Click on the Conferencing pulldown menu and click on Summarize Selected Messages.

3. The selected message will be summarized as a text file in a new window.

4. To save the summarized message, click on the Save As icon in the summary window toolbar.

5. A window will open for you to select where on the computer you want to save your summarized message to.

6. Click on the Save as box in the window to rename the summarized text file.

7. Click the Save button to save the summarized file or click the Cancel button if you do not wish to save the file.

8. After you save the summary, the info bar a the bottom of the summary window will state "Summarization Complete".

Click here to summarize more than one message at a time (Click here for the QuickTime Video).