Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your OFT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert OFT to another file type
To convert OFT templates to another format, you need Microsoft Outlook or other Data software.
Convert a file to OFT
To convert other file formats to the "Email Template" file type, you need software like Microsoft Outlook or a similar tool.
About OFT files
The .OFT file extension represents an Outlook File Template. These files contain pre-formatted email layouts, text, attachments, and styling used to send repetitive emails quickly. They are primarily created and managed using Microsoft Outlook. While useful within the Microsoft ecosystem, .OFT files are highly proprietary and present major disadvantages for sharing. They cannot be opened directly by webmail services like Gmail, nor are they natively supported by alternative desktop clients like Mozilla Thunderbird or Apple Mail. They use a closed OLE Compound Document structure which is difficult to parse outside of Windows environments. Furthermore, because they can contain active content, they often trigger strict security filters. To share or archive these templates, users frequently need to convert them. The most pragmatic conversion targets are EML for universal email client compatibility, PDF for static archiving and printing, or HTML to extract the layout for web or other email marketing tools. Converting to MSG is also common, though it remains tied to Outlook. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, standard online converters often fail to process it correctly, losing formatting or attachments. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Even if the proprietary wrapper blocks full conversion, our analysis detects supported underlying formats, meaning viewing or extracting the text may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your OFT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert OFT file to PDF, EML, HTML, TTF, WOFF, MSG, INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6 or PM7, you can use Microsoft Outlook or similar software from the "Email Message Template" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to OFT, try Microsoft Outlook or another comparable tool in the "Email Message Template" category.
The OFT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our OFT converter.