Thanks!

Not what I wanted to hear!!! But you probably realised that I had come to
suspect this myself!

Your email was, without doubt, informative and helpful, with a number of
options I will follow up!

Thanks again!

"rtipping" wrote:

On Jan 18, 11:16 am, TearingMyHairOut
wrote:
I have created a newsletter in MS Publisher 2007 for distribution via email,
using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. I intend the newsletter to
be in the message body of the email and for it to be personalised (and have
worked out how to achieve that in MS Publisher and Business Contacts
Manager). The newsletter will be 'launched' using the 'Create a Marketing
Campaign' button in MS Publisher. I do not want this to go out as a pdf file.

All looks good on screen, when I preview the newsletter (and it opens in my
browser, IE8), it looks perfect!

However, when I sent a test newsletter to myself, when it appears in the
sent box, some of the formatting is lost, (eg text spills below where I
designed it to be and some images have corners missing, etc). It appears
with similar formatting problems when it arrives in my inbox.

When I send test newsletters to trusted others, some see the newsletter
appearing perfectly and others do not, and there seems to be no consistent
reason - some view it fine using Outlook, others don't; some view it fine
using web-based mail, such as hotmail and google, others don't.

One person has reported that as well as receiving the newsletter in the
message, they also received a sizeable number of file attachments (ie one for
each image / graphic / box outline, etc).

Am I missing something in the settings / options for Publisher and / or
Outlook that will enable me to send the newsletter in the body of the message
without all the attachments going with it and with greater confidence that
the formatting issues outlined above will not occur?

Also, when I receive newsletters, I am always given the chance to 'click
here' to view in my web browser. How can I provide this option in my
newsletter?

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium, IE8. and Office 2007 including
Business Contact Manager

Thanks for your help!

Tearing:

I went through this some years back and what everyone is telling you
is 50% true.

The true part is MS publisher wont do what you want trust me been
there done that .

Now I am a web developer and also very lazy so I already knew what the
truth was that I was probably going to have to crate table based HTML
docs and then test the bejazezs out of them on as many expected end
user situations as possible .

Now depending on your ability to gauge your end user's you can concoct
some lazy ways of getting this done but the truth is to get a broad
spectrum of decent rendering html mail its a LOT of work .

Now I have not done this but I think it entirely possible that google
docs which has some pic in mail capability could hit a broad base of
rendering possibilities and before I got completely overwhelmed with
this about 3 years ago I did notice the shrewd marketers designing
with minimum pics but with heavy style and deft arrangement on what
they said and where.

Sadly all this is to naught if the recipient will not accept html
mail.

There is another anomaly for the lazy guys called "incredamail" which
is providing the ability to embed mail with images - will this work a
100% across the board NO
but i have been fairly lucky with it .The free version is useless so
dont go there and for your purposes you need the create mail plug in
which of course is more money

I should also mention there are professional services out there (no Im
not one of them) that seem to do a good job please appreciate this is
a job in itself if you want to do it properly and have it render on a
broad base of browsers and clients.

To summarize you could between Publisher,google docs and Incredamail
put together a mufti pronged amateur campaign together or you could
fully test html docs(table based forget css for this job)spend a ton
of time and get so so results or you could hire a pro company get as
high as an 80-90% result and put your own time to better use-at least
that is how I settled this for myself.
Good luck.
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