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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
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! |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
Send your newsletter as a .pdf attachment and it will appear just the way
you want it to appear. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... 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! |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
I've seen this response elsewhere which is why I particularly drew attention
in my original query to the fact that I do NOT want to send as a pdf file. This is a personalised mailing, which MS Publisher 2007 allows for using a mailmerge facility which both MS Publisher 2007 and Office 2007 with Business Contact Manager allows for. I have created a pdf file of the newsletter which will also be available on my website, but this does not get round the personalised email requirement. Is it actually the case that MS Publisher will not do what I want it to do? Thanks again, in anticipation. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Send your newsletter as a .pdf attachment and it will appear just the way you want it to appear. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... 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! . |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
The reason some folks are receiving your newsletter with attachments is because
they have chosen not to receive HTML email. The only way you can be sure your newsletter will be received exactly as you send it is via PDF. I know you stated you rather not have a PDF attachment, but it is preferable. Another alternative would be to compose the newsletter in Outlook. Some help here Promote your business with Marketing Campaigns in Business Contact Manager http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pu...518331033.aspx and here How to save your publication as a Web Archive in Publisher and share it in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312157 -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... 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! |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
You can't change the way your readers get their mail, regardless of the
program you use. Sending a .pdf file is the best way to "control" the way the end product looks for your readers. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... I've seen this response elsewhere which is why I particularly drew attention in my original query to the fact that I do NOT want to send as a pdf file. This is a personalised mailing, which MS Publisher 2007 allows for using a mailmerge facility which both MS Publisher 2007 and Office 2007 with Business Contact Manager allows for. I have created a pdf file of the newsletter which will also be available on my website, but this does not get round the personalised email requirement. Is it actually the case that MS Publisher will not do what I want it to do? Thanks again, in anticipation. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Send your newsletter as a .pdf attachment and it will appear just the way you want it to appear. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... 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 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! . |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
Well, JoAnn, I fully appreciate that I can't control recipients' Outlook,
other email client, or web based email settings. And I also appreciate that pdf retains formatting very effectively. But I'm now wondering why it is that MS Office provides an apparent solution in Publisher that permits users such as me to: 1. design a publication for distribution by email, with the explicit option to include that newsletter in the main message body rather than as an attachment, (pdf or otherwise); 2. personalise that newsletter; 3. merge it with an Outlook contacts file; and 4. launch it through Business Contact Manager ..... when at the final hurdle, seemingly from the replies to my original post to date, MS Publisher / Outlook 2007 don't quite do what they say on the tin! If I've misread any of the MS supporting material to both these applications, that's one thing - but I think both applications are quite explicit in what they say they can do. I take it that what I want to do and what is summarised above is not, afterall, possible, without getting unexpected format changes and without some recipients, (possibly those who do not accept HTML messages), getting large numbers of file attachments, (though I have one report of a recipient getting full text and images in the main message body and also receiving file attachments)! Or maybe I've missed something ...? "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: You can't change the way your readers get their mail, regardless of the program you use. Sending a .pdf file is the best way to "control" the way the end product looks for your readers. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... I've seen this response elsewhere which is why I particularly drew attention in my original query to the fact that I do NOT want to send as a pdf file. This is a personalised mailing, which MS Publisher 2007 allows for using a mailmerge facility which both MS Publisher 2007 and Office 2007 with Business Contact Manager allows for. I have created a pdf file of the newsletter which will also be available on my website, but this does not get round the personalised email requirement. Is it actually the case that MS Publisher will not do what I want it to do? Thanks again, in anticipation. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Send your newsletter as a .pdf attachment and it will appear just the way you want it to appear. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "TearingMyHairOut" wrote in message ... 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 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! . . |
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Problem with email newsletter from MS Publisher 2007
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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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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But if the recipient has their email set for Text Only, none of those things
are going to work. Plain and simple. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "rtipping" wrote in message ... 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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What seems to have been ignored by all the replies to this thread is "why
doesn't the feature to send via embedded email work?" Work arounds are all very well, but it doesn't adress the problem itself. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: But if the recipient has their email set for Text Only, none of those things are going to work. Plain and simple. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "rtipping" wrote in message ... 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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