Outlook for Mac doesn't offer this functionality. The closest you can get is by opening the HTML file in Word and doing a mail merge to Outlook. But this is very bad practice and highly not advisable. To do this, please click New Email File Save As. Choose a local folder (for example, Desktop) and set the type as.msg. Double click to open it from Desktop to check the results. We can try opening Outlook in safe mode to see if the issue continues.
Microsoft was nice enough not to store anything that they do in an open format which leaves us with the huge pain of converting their crap to work on our systems. Mail’s templates are pretty bad but at least its just html and you can easily put it into any mail application. Here’s what you need:
- Outlook
- Microsoft office
- Office application for Mac
- Mail (OS X)
Starting with the oft file
The oft file format is what outlook uses to store templates. Basically it’s html by Microsoft! If you open it and look at it using a plain text viewer you’ll see jibberish and snippets of html and content mixed in. Great, so now you have your proprietary and disgusting template from outlook, open it using outlook. Now select everything in that email and copy it. Open off office and paste it in.
Pasting into office
Answer: Files which are given the.OFT extension are known as Outlook Template files, however other file types may also use this extension. If you are aware of any additional file formats that use the OFT extension, please let us know. How to open a OFT file: The best way to open an OFT data file is to simply double-click it and let the default. The w ork around: download (or upload) the attachment, close Outlook, go to saved attachment and open it. Outlook will open to the email template and you can hit 'send'. Outlook will open to the email template and you can hit 'send'.
If after copying and pasting directly from the outlook window into office if the format changes then I’m sorry, you have no hope. If it did past in correctly congratulations! Save it as a .doc or .docx whatever works for you and whatever you can open on your mac office application
More copy and paste
Now goto your Mac and open up the doc you created from the oft file. Select all, copy and paste it into a mail window. Congrats! You have put a oft file into mail.
Automatically converting a bunch of oft files
I don’t know of any way to automatically convert multiple oft files. If I did I probably wouldn’t be in such a bad mood.
How to get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)?
Let’s say you have created many Outlook templates before, and now you need to export them, how could you get it done? If you can get the file location of these Outlook templates, it will be quite easy to export. And this article is talking about tricks on getting Outlook templates’ file location.
Method 1: Get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)
If you can remember the folder path of templates folder, you can get the file location of Outlook templates quickly as follows:
Open the file explorer, copy and paste the folder path %AppData%MicrosoftTemplates into the Address box, and press the Enter key.
And now it opens the folder containing all kinds of office templates, including Outlook templates.
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Method 2: Get the file location of Outlook templates (.oft files)
If you can’t remember the folder path of templates folder clearly, you can get the file location of Outlook templates with below steps:
1. In Outlook, select an email, and click File > Save As.
2. In the opening Save As dialog box, please select Outlook Template (*.oft) from the Save as type drop down list.
3. Now the template folder is opening in the Save As dialog box. Please select and copy the folder path in the Address box, and then close the Save As dialog box.
4. Open the file explorer, paste the copied folder path in the Address box, and press the Enter key.
Open Oft File In Outlook
And now it opens the template folder, and you will view all Outlook templates within it.
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How To Open .oft File On Outlook For Mac
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