[Janine Hergesell]

I send out email blasts through an e-mail merge in Word 2007 (using an Excel
sheet as data source).

Recipients are getting my message with two mysterious attachments (which are
confusing recipients and getting the message blocked/caught by spam filters):

themedata.thmx
colorschememapping.xml

(If you open them, one is a bunch of code and the other is a blank
Powerpoint slide.)

In Outlook (at least in 2007, I don't know about other versions), recipient
sees a mysterious paperclip icon....but no attachments, and nothing happens
when you click on the paperclip.

I've seen people write on message boards on the Web that these files are
created by Word 2007 "for round-trip purposes (i.e. when a file is going to
be converted from one format to another and then back again into the original
format.)"

But no one knows how to remove them or prevent them from being attached to
the messages we send.

Even more mysterious is that the problem only happens sometimes, and I'm
trying to determine why. I've tried:

--first creating the document in Notepad
--saving the document as a Word 2003 doc
--using the default "Normal" style
--changing the style to "No spacing"
-- under "Styles" clicking on "clear all formatting"
--not including bullets or numbered lists or merged data fields
--under "Word Options" unchecking the "embed linguistics/embed smart tags"
(I don't know what these are, but I'm trying everything...)
--sending through two different Outlook accounts

Any help is appreciated!
--Janine Hergesell