Brace yourselves this might be a tricky one.

[Frenchfarmer]

The Shepherdess has finally realised that Outlook Express is not a word processer and wants to know how to save the lot before "compact messages" sends them to infinity.
So much for stage one.
She wants to save all the esoteric research and important translations that she has been doing for the last couple of years. So?? Ext. hard disk or what?
BUT she uses whatever programme she happens to find so it is all splattered everywhere. Notepad Wordpad Works My Photos Picasa etc.
How?????

P.S. This is massive amounts of stuff.

[Drift]

Select all cut or copy to a folder on your desktop, when you click on the required document it will then be opened by outlook.

[Alchamist]

I would personally go for an external hard drive (doesn't matter if the PC crashes then) as well as backing up to DVD's for the really important stuff

As for the "all kinds of programs", if you don't have Microsoft Office, then get Open Office (it's free!), as I bet it will handle the majority of formats that she has there

[Frenchfarmer]

Select all cut or copy to a folder on your desktop, when you click on the required document it will then be opened by outlook.

She doesn't have Outlook thinks it's to do with where a house is situated.
She doesn't want me mucking around and adding programs just wants me to save it all before friday when I nip back to Scotland for a week or two. And her and Open Office fell out in three mins flat.

She's got Micosoft Works, Office viewer & Office Powerpoint viewer and HotDocs 2008 Player which seems to open everything.
Oh and about 1,000 favourites classed in a most odd way.
And no letters left on the keyboard they're all worn off.
So new keyboard tomorrow and Ext hard disc.
Then What?