The background colour will not be retained in Outlook in the case of a
recipient who has their Outlook configured to read messages in text mode
only, which is a wise precaution against the possibility of receiving some
rogue application masquerading behind a graphic display in an HTML message.
If the appearance of your message is important, it should be sent as an
attachment to an email message and even better as a .pdf attachment.
To mail merge to email with attachments, see the article "Mail Merge to
E-mail with Attachments" at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm
To create individual documents from a mail merge, see the "Individual Merge
Letters" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at:
http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm
If you are using Office XP or later, the "Add-in to Merge Letters to
Separate
Files" that I have written and that can be downloaded from that site will
allow you to create each letter as a separate file with a filename taken
from a field in the data source with a minimum of fuss and also to create it
as a .pdf file.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Micmojav" wrote in message
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2002 Word Mail-merge to email looses Background Color when received on Web
Based Mail such as Yahoo or AOL. The same Word Document merged in to
email
and received on Outlook looks exactly as expected with proper background
color.
I further tried to make my background color to a picture which that too
did
not work. To replicate you can just start with a "hello world" text, use
the
MS Word menu -- Format -- Background and complete the mail merge
process
and do "electronic mail" to any AOL or Yahoo account.
I appreciate any help.
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MMM
Pasadena, CA