How to convert an Outlook email to a Word document?

I need to submit several emails as part of a report, formatted and editable in Word with the header details showing.

Copy paste keeps mangling the layout. Is there a proper way to land an email in DOCX form?

The route that preserves layout is going through HTML, because Outlook and Word share the same rendering engine for HTML mail.

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Open the email, File, Save As, set Save as type to HTML and save it.

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Open that HTML file in Word. Right click it, Open with, Word if double click sends it to a browser.

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In Word do File, Save As, format Word Document (.docx). Formatting, inline images and tables carry over.

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For the header details, the HTML export includes the From, Sent, To and Subject block at the top automatically, so nothing extra to add.

For dozens of emails at once, save them to a PST and use a converter with DOC or DOCX output rather than repeating this per message. Copy paste mangles layout because it transfers the message as rich text and drops the CSS that HTML mail relies on, which is exactly what the Save As route avoids.

The HTML round trip keeps everything, even the table in the middle of the thread. This is the answer.