Mail Merge Formatting Problem

[Guest]

Hope you can help with my Office XP problem.

I have written a source document in Word which I want to
send as an email. I'm using the mail-merge wizard from
Word, and the process seems to work fine, except that the
style/format of the document differ. The source
document is written in 10pt Arial, but when I see it as
an email, the generated emails are all in 12pt Times
Roman.

Also, I notice that whereas I used the 'normal' style in
the source document, it appears as a 'paragraph' style in
the emails.

Any ideas as to how I can maintain the exact same
formatting from my source document through to the
completed emails would be much appreciated.

Many thanks


James Foley

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hope you can help with my Office XP problem.

I have written a source document in Word which I want to
send as an email. I'm using the mail-merge wizard from
Word, and the process seems to work fine, except that the
style/format of the document differ. The source
document is written in 10pt Arial, but when I see it as
an email, the generated emails are all in 12pt Times
Roman.

Also, I notice that whereas I used the 'normal' style in
the source document, it appears as a 'paragraph' style in
the emails.

Any ideas as to how I can maintain the exact same
formatting from my source document through to the
completed emails would be much appreciated.

Are you choosing to merge as "plain text" or in "HTML"
format? You'd definitely need the latter in order to
maintain any formatting.

Note that you'll never be able to get a Email to look
exactly like a Word document. HTML is not Word's document
format, and doesn't support everything a Word document can
do. If you need it to be exact, you'll need to send the Word
document as an attachment.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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