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[shalia2u]

Here is my dilema.I created a word template for an email merge. When I send
the template the pictures show up with dots. However the original template
pictures are fine. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

 

[GreyGoose]

Here is my dilema.I created a word template for an email merge. When I send
the template the pictures show up with dots. However the original template
pictures are fine. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

Do you have your Show/Hide on?
It's the button that looks like a backward P on the toolbar. It's right
before the Zoom box.

Click on that, and those dots, non-printing characters, will go away.

 

[shalia2u]

sorry, but that didn't solve it. There are these little dots all over the
pictures. It has to be in the way I set up the template or the way I'm
sending it because the original is fine the problem is the way it looks after
I'm sending it. Any other ideas?

 

[GreyGoose]

Here is my dilema.I created a word template for an email merge. When I send
the template the pictures show up with dots. However the original template
pictures are fine. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

I can't think of what you're doing wrong. Have you tried www.mvps.org?
Did you check the printer? The templates are perfect but sending is the
problem, maybe it's the output.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Are you merging to an HTML email, or merging as an attachment? Can you
experiment with whichever method you are /not/ using?

Off the top of my head I would guess that if you are merging to HTML, either
the merge process or your e-mail client (presumably Outlook) is modifyig the
images, perhaps "downgrading" the resolution. It could be something to do
with the receiving e-mail client but I think that's unlikely in this case.

Peter Jamieson

 

[shalia2u]

Well, I tried more HTML so far... attachment won't work either. This is just
really strange. All other emails are fine except when I try to merge them.
You might be right about the "downgrading" ... I'll try changing some
settings around.
Thanks a lot for your input!!!!

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You may for example find that the settings in Word Tools|Options|General|Web
Options|"Browsers" and "Pictures" (more likely "Pictures") affect what
happens, because Word is probably saving each document to an HTML file
before constructing a message from it, and when it saves it will probably
use those settings. But I don't know for sure.

Peter Jamieson

 

[shalia2u]

"www.mvps.org" that is a nice webpage... thanks for your help with this,
GreyGoose

 

[shalia2u]

Hey, I solved it... don't know how but now the pictures are looking Great. I
saved the template as RTF First and then when you get to the part where you
are asked to Select Recipient I selected Start From existing document. So
that did it for me ... I think... but I also changed some other settings too
.... but I think that's what did it.
Thanks Peter