Copying archived Messenger conversations into Word doc

I'm curious if it's possible to copy existing archived conversations in
Windows Live Messenger into a Word document? I can do this in Yahoo IM
archives with no problem, but when I tried to do the same in WLM today, it
wouldn't allow me to pull up a Copy/Paste feature. If anyone can help me
with this, that would be great. Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

Well, if you just want to copy/paste, you can just open up the archive files directly. To do
that, head over to your My Documents or Documents folder, then My Received Files, then the
folder corresponding to your Windows Live ID e-mail address, plus a number (example.
jonathan392893293782), and the finally the History folder in there. You'll see similarly
named XML files which are the message history. Just double-click on one and it should open
up in your web browser, ready and available for copying.

However, more modern versions of Word (2003 or higher) support XML natively, so you can
actually open up these files in Word itself if you like by right-clicking one, pointing to
Open With and choosing Microsoft Office Word. Note that if you do this, you'll need to
choose the MessageLog.xsl as the schema which will show up as an option on the schema pane
that will appear. Once it's done parsing, you can then go ahead and Save As into a normal
Word doc or whatever you like.

Any particular reason however that you want to convert these into Word format in the first
place?

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I'm curious if it's possible to copy existing archived conversations in
Windows Live Messenger into a Word document? I can do this in Yahoo IM
archives with no problem, but when I tried to do the same in WLM today, it
wouldn't allow me to pull up a Copy/Paste feature. If anyone can help me
with this, that would be great. Thanks in advance!