How to create an HTML email (newsletter) in Entourage?

[tennis]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I need to create at least a decent looking newsletter in Entourage (HTML) that I can send throughout my company. Is this possible? Where can I get details? I've done a lot of searching and haven't found anything that really helps.

Tx Chris

 

[Adam Bailey]

I need to create at least a decent looking newsletter in Entourage (HTML)
that I can send throughout my company. Is this possible? Where can I get
details? I've done a lot of searching and haven't found anything that really
helps.

Entourage doesn't have the ability to generate complex HTML by itself.
You could create such a newsletter in Microsoft Word, however, and send
it through Entourage via File > Send To.

You can also use a third-party HTML tool and use the Send Complex HTML
AppleScript. A Google search will turn it up.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Entourage doesn't have the ability to generate complex HTML by itself.
You could create such a newsletter in Microsoft Word, however, and send
it through Entourage via File > Send To.

In addition to Adam's comment: please note that this option is only
available if Entourage is set as your default e-mail application.

 

[www.bellevuefineart.com]

Hang it up. There's no way. The HTML bug in Entourage persists, making it
the suckiest email program ever. You can create html in word, but it sends
as an attachment. If I wanted to send an attachment, I'd just email out a
PDF file.

Despite lots of good help and effort from the MVPs here, Microsoft still
doesn't get it.

 

[Adam Bailey]

Hang it up. There's no way. The HTML bug in Entourage persists, making it
the suckiest email program ever.

While I agree that Entourage's HTML support is quite poor...

You can create html in word, but it sends as an attachment.

....this is not the case from my experience. Word's HTML generation is
nothing to be proud of, but it does work, and should not generate an
attachment.

Or, as I said, use any HTML generator and use the Send Complex HTML
AppleScript. Works like a charm.

No one serious about a newsletter should be building it in their email
program anyway.

 

[Michel Bintener]

You can create html in word, but it sends as an attachment.

If Entourage is set as your default e-mail application, you will see another
option in Word, to send the file as HTML.