Save emails from Outlook as .msg with dates in filenames

Hi there, I'm actually trying to save Outlook 2016 emails as pdfs with the receive date in the file name (as it only has the subject title in the file name normally), but I was having trouble with this.

I came about a blog post from 2015 via google that posted a VBA script to export outlook as .msg with dates in filenames, but I keep getting a syntax error.

I'm not familiar with scripting or anything VBA related, so I was wondering if someone might be able to direct me in the right path.

The script from the blog post is here:

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Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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I guess you are doing all that in VBA for Outlook? If not, you need some tweaks if doing it in VBA for Excel.

As for the last "code", before that line:

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As will see in Immediate Window after a Run, you have an invalid filename.

Thank you for pointing out the fix. It's obvious but my brain must have been on backwards or something since I'm used to seeing & as an actual ampersand doing some front-end web work.

Again, thank you!