Hello,

I have spent all day trying to figure out how to do a mail merge
e-mailing with Word 2002 and include inserted images (like small JPEG
files) in the body of those messages. I just joined this Group, b/c I
really need help since I was unable to find any helpful info after
looking on the Microsoft site and countless other internet sites and
pages.

I have tried all 3 options in the Merge to E-mail box (plain text,
html, and attachment; although I knew that attachment wouldn't work to
get the images and text to appear in the body, I tried it anyway and
although everything appears correctly once the attachment is opened, I
want to have this info appear in the Body right away when an e-mail is
opened). When I sent it as the HTML option, nothing ever was received.
With the Plain Text option, just the text came through--no images. I
also tried to save the whole doc. as an HTML file and send it that way,
but that didn't work either.

Of course when I send an individual e-mail with pictures in Word and
not using mail merge wizard, then that works fine and everything with
the images appears correctly in the body; but I have hundreds and
hundreds of these e-mails that I need to send.

Please, if anyone knows whether or not this can be done, I would really
appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

Matt

Bear in mind that you have absolutely no control over how a recipient views
your message. Those of us who are careful about what we open have our mail
readers set to display only plain text. The only way to ensure that your
message is seen as intended is to send it as a PDF format attachment, for
which you'll need extra software to create the PDFs.

See the article prepared by fellow MVP Doug Robbins at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm

Whether or not Word 2002 can merge to e-mail in html format (and I seem to
recall that it could not do this), Word 2003 can now do so and my tests with
an html merge with graphics to e-mail worked as you intended.

If you send hundreds of e-mails, your sending address will very quickly find
itself blacklisted as that of a spammer.


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


wrote:
Hello,

I have spent all day trying to figure out how to do a mail merge
e-mailing with Word 2002 and include inserted images (like small JPEG
files) in the body of those messages. I just joined this Group, b/c I
really need help since I was unable to find any helpful info after
looking on the Microsoft site and countless other internet sites and
pages.

I have tried all 3 options in the Merge to E-mail box (plain text,
html, and attachment; although I knew that attachment wouldn't work to
get the images and text to appear in the body, I tried it anyway and
although everything appears correctly once the attachment is opened, I
want to have this info appear in the Body right away when an e-mail is
opened). When I sent it as the HTML option, nothing ever was received.
With the Plain Text option, just the text came through--no images. I
also tried to save the whole doc. as an HTML file and send it that
way, but that didn't work either.

Of course when I send an individual e-mail with pictures in Word and
not using mail merge wizard, then that works fine and everything with
the images appears correctly in the body; but I have hundreds and
hundreds of these e-mails that I need to send.

Please, if anyone knows whether or not this can be done, I would
really appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

Matt

Well the PDF way does not sound like what I want to do, but thanks
anyway. And I appreciate the extra feedback/concern, although I am not
sure what you specifically mean by "blacklisted", other than meaning
that a given recipient would block future messages from my address; or
is there some federal database to which you are referring? Regardless,
I really do not consider what I do to be spamming. I focus on a very,
very specific target audience so only interested parties receive
e-mail, always scaning my computer first to make sure I'm not sending
out viruses, and I always include info as to how their info was
obtained and easy instructions on how to opt out of future mailings. I
know from experience of what I've received that many true Spammers
don't take any of these extra measures.

Anyway, I'll likely just go back to sending e-mails without images
again, since I do realize that others, like myself included, use
methods to block most images in e-mails.

Matt


Graham Mayor wrote:
Bear in mind that you have absolutely no control over how a recipient views
your message. Those of us who are careful about what we open have our mail
readers set to display only plain text. The only way to ensure that your
message is seen as intended is to send it as a PDF format attachment, for
which you'll need extra software to create the PDFs.

See the article prepared by fellow MVP Doug Robbins at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm

Whether or not Word 2002 can merge to e-mail in html format (and I seem to
recall that it could not do this), Word 2003 can now do so and my tests with
an html merge with graphics to e-mail worked as you intended.

If you send hundreds of e-mails, your sending address will very quickly find
itself blacklisted as that of a spammer.


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


wrote:
Hello,

I have spent all day trying to figure out how to do a mail merge
e-mailing with Word 2002 and include inserted images (like small JPEG
files) in the body of those messages. I just joined this Group, b/c I
really need help since I was unable to find any helpful info after
looking on the Microsoft site and countless other internet sites and
pages.

I have tried all 3 options in the Merge to E-mail box (plain text,
html, and attachment; although I knew that attachment wouldn't work to
get the images and text to appear in the body, I tried it anyway and
although everything appears correctly once the attachment is opened, I
want to have this info appear in the Body right away when an e-mail is
opened). When I sent it as the HTML option, nothing ever was received.
With the Plain Text option, just the text came through--no images. I
also tried to save the whole doc. as an HTML file and send it that
way, but that didn't work either.

Of course when I send an individual e-mail with pictures in Word and
not using mail merge wizard, then that works fine and everything with
the images appears correctly in the body; but I have hundreds and
hundreds of these e-mails that I need to send.

Please, if anyone knows whether or not this can be done, I would
really appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

Matt