As you have no control over the way in which the final recipients view their
email - the more astute will do so as plain text for security reasons - the
best thing to do is to send the information as an attachment to an email
merge, and if formatting is important, as a .pdf attachment.
See the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with Attachments" at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm
and to see how to make individualised attachments, 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 Word 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.
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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
"Mark Stewart" <mark[ at ]afm.netNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:OYzxwVQuHHA.1768[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
[Quoted Text] >I have Office Premium 2007 and am trying to use it to send an email merge
>to all of our customers.
> I have the document set up as an email and formatted laid out and looking
> good. I can do a mail merge to my test group which includes my Exchange
> Outlook 2007 email address and Outlook 2003 email address of another
> worker here and a yahoo.com email address for outside testing. What
> happens is on the computers with Outlook 2007 and Word 2007 the email
> looks great. In all other clients the email looks very bad. The tables are
> all broken and the images are all over the place. Nothing layers
> correctly.
> I have saved the document as a Word 2003 doc and then tried to open it up
> on another computer with only Office 2003 and it opens fine but after
> sending it VIA email (from an office 2003 computer) it still has the same
> formatting errors.
>
> The only place it formats correctly is the two computers with Office 2007
> installed. the other computers are totally unacceptable.
>
> Any Ideas will GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Mark
>
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