inserting attachments into mailmerge emails

[Alan]

Until I saw Doug’s article “inserting attachments into mailmerge emailsâ€, I
thought there was no way to send an attachment with an email from Outlook
2003. I had been working on emailing a merged email message, with a second
page containing what I really wanted to send as an attachment, and, due to
formatting problems on my internal test run and the scope for further
problems with some of our unsophisticated prospect base, I had just about
given up on the whole idea.

I have trialled Doug’s program with a work-around for the attachment (in my
case a .pdf form) and it works well, apart from one problem. I copied and
pasted the macro as directed, after specifying the References for the Tools
Menu. I am using Outlook 2003 with Word 2003.

Although my sent document and the inbox document (sent to myself for the
trial) both specify the document as HTML format, the document itself has been
stripped of graphics and the bold print and italic print. Everything appears
as the original regular Ariel 10 font, similar to this print, with the
bullets and tabs, removed. Is there a way to overcome this problem?

If there has been a similar query before now, just point me to the comments
and I will be very grateful.

Alan

 

[Graham Mayor]

One thing you could try is to install the demo version of MAPILab's
Mailmerge toolkit add-in for Outlook
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/mail_merge/ While this will allow you to send
e-mail attachments directly, it is also rumoured to fix the issues that
cause problems with html e-mail merges and they should remain fixed if you
decide not to continue with it.

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