Word 2004 help with sending email as body of message

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cdastager

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a Word doc/pdf/htm that I need to send in the BODY of an email message, not as an attachment. I am NOT able to copy/paste, import/export, mail merge....Any suggestions. Seems like this should be Word 101 stuff but I can't figure it out. Would appreciate any and all help...???
 
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Michel Bintener

Well, which file type is it? You list three.

If you have a Word document open, and if Entourage is set as your
default e-mail application, you can simply click on File>Send To>Mail
Recipient (as HTML). Note that you cannot modify this message in
Entourage, i.e. you cannot change the text, or add an attachment to the
message.
 
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cdastager

My message can be used as any of the 3 types.
Every time I try to send it only gives me the option to send as an attachment. I don't have options to send as HTML.
Can I change that? Or should I create my document in another format/application?
 
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Michel Bintener

Quit Word, then open Apple Mail, go to Mail>Preferences and make sure
Entourage is set as your default e-mail application. If you now open
Word again, you should see the File>Send To>Mail Recipient (as HTML)
option. You can also send your HTML files this way; just open them in
Word, then use the same option.

It is not possible to include a PDF file in the text body; a PDF file is
automatically added as an attachment.
 
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cdastager

I really appreciate all your help.
I can't set Entourage as my default email app. It isn't listed when I go to change it in my mail settings preferences.....(?) not sure why not.
What is the best way to send a newsletter as the body of an email message? I have Word 2004 and am trying to send it thru yahoo mail.
Thanks for all your help!
This is so frustrating for me-I only have a few hairs left to pull....
 
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Michel Bintener

Hi,

if Entourage is not listed, click on Select… in the dropdown menu in
Mail's General preferences; this will allow you to navigate to the
Entourage application and select it as your default application.

The best solution for sending a newsletter as the body of an e-mail,
especially given the tools you own (Microsoft Office 2004), is the
combination of Word and Entourage, as described in my earlier post.
However, this is not how I would go about it.

First of all, HTML e-mail messages are generally frowned upon, as they
eat up a lot of bandwidth, and there is no way to predict if the result
which the recipients will see is identical to the newsletter you have on
your screen. HTML messages can change depending on the recipient's
preferences, or the fonts installed on his system, or even his web
browser or e-mail application, so the result is never reallly reliable.
I would recommend two solutions:

1) creating the newsletter on a webpage via iWeb, for instance, and then
simply sending the link to the webpage via e-mail.
2) creating the newsletter in Word, saving the file as a PDF and then
attach the PDF file to an e-mail message. The advantage of that method
is that the final result (i.e. the newsletter PDF) will look exactly the
same on any platform.

Hope this helps!
 
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cdastager

Thanks for all your help!
I'm going to start from scratch with a PDF file and hope it works...
 
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lu pache

.... not as an attachment.

I can't send a word doc in the body of the email.

I have entourage set up as my default mail. Can you please help.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

... not as an attachment.

I can't send a word doc in the body of the email.

I have entourage set up as my default mail. Can you please help.

The short answer is that you can't.
E-mails can be sent plain text or HTML. A Word Document cannot be sent
as the body of the e-mail.
As Michel pointed out, you can get Word to convert the messages to an
HTML approximation but that's not a perfect solution - far from it.
In addition, Entourage doesn't support complex HTML. You'd have to use
an AppleScript to have the e-mail sent as complex HTML.

Corentin
 

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