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Picture placement in docs for email
My boss and I have been trying to create a newsletter as a Word Document so
that we can easily use the new mail merge program that Microsoft has. I was able to create a word document with pictures and text boxes etc easily enough, but when we sent it through as an email, things were all out of line (pictures had moved, the banner wasn't visible at the top). When I tried to edit the document using the web layout view, I was able to move things around a bit, but whenever I tried to move a picture away from the edges of the page into the center, it wouldn't go. And if I moved a picture up too close to the picture above it, the top picture would jump to a random location on the page. Does anyone have any suggestions for being able to format these pages correctly? We temporarily created the newsletter in publisher and it was formatted correctly, but using mail merge with publisher is much more difficult than using it with word. We'd like to be able to create the newsletters as word documents. Thanks!! |
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Picture placement in docs for email
Mail Merge is nothing new.
To overcome your problem, I would suggest converting the document to a .pdf file and send that. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Kim" wrote in message ... My boss and I have been trying to create a newsletter as a Word Document so that we can easily use the new mail merge program that Microsoft has. I was able to create a word document with pictures and text boxes etc easily enough, but when we sent it through as an email, things were all out of line (pictures had moved, the banner wasn't visible at the top). When I tried to edit the document using the web layout view, I was able to move things around a bit, but whenever I tried to move a picture away from the edges of the page into the center, it wouldn't go. And if I moved a picture up too close to the picture above it, the top picture would jump to a random location on the page. Does anyone have any suggestions for being able to format these pages correctly? We temporarily created the newsletter in publisher and it was formatted correctly, but using mail merge with publisher is much more difficult than using it with word. We'd like to be able to create the newsletters as word documents. Thanks!! |
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Picture placement in docs for email
The formatting requirements for html e-mail and word document are entirely
different. html does not support headers or footers or even pages. If you want to prepare the document as the body of an e-mail you need a WYSIWYG html editor. Word switched to its web view will provide a rudimentary html editor to give some idea of the problems - as you have found. The use of tables to lay out your document would work best, however, as Doug suggests, PDF is an even better way forward. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: My boss and I have been trying to create a newsletter as a Word Document so that we can easily use the new mail merge program that Microsoft has. I was able to create a word document with pictures and text boxes etc easily enough, but when we sent it through as an email, things were all out of line (pictures had moved, the banner wasn't visible at the top). When I tried to edit the document using the web layout view, I was able to move things around a bit, but whenever I tried to move a picture away from the edges of the page into the center, it wouldn't go. And if I moved a picture up too close to the picture above it, the top picture would jump to a random location on the page. Does anyone have any suggestions for being able to format these pages correctly? We temporarily created the newsletter in publisher and it was formatted correctly, but using mail merge with publisher is much more difficult than using it with word. We'd like to be able to create the newsletters as word documents. Thanks!! |
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