I am trying to send a mail merge from a Word document by email using my
Outlook. Whenever I send the message it goes out as a plain text email,
effecting losing all my formatting, which is essential to the project. I've
tried setting my outgoing mail in Outlook as HTML, Rich text and plain text,
but no matter how my outgoing mail is set it comes out in plain text. I
can't send as an attachment, which is my only other option. Any ideas?

HI,

Although you do not have control on the recipient side, there are solutions.
They are somewhat costly for just a desktop low volume application, but for
more automated and volume orientated requirements easily justified. My
OctoTools is representative of such software. It performs the mail merge
function, keeping the Rich Text Format of your original document (images,
signatures and so on...) and then produces a PDF output with the preserved
formatting (and in many cases, enhancing the output with its own built in
forms designer if necessary). If you have a requirement like this, please
check out www.ocototools.com for additional info. Most desktop PDF
converters do not have the mail merge capability, its usually found in the
more costly enterprise level software. Thanks, I hope this is of help.

Larry T.