Using HTML code fragments from publisher in an email

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John - 23 Jun 2005 10:35 GMT

I am trying to send an email that contains HTML code fragments to allow the
recipient to navigate around the mail. I have managed once to send the mail
where the code appears as a link. However I can not get this to happen again
the mail when sent contains the code rather than a link. Must be doing
something really stupid

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 24 Jun 2005 15:44 GMT

Review the code snippet in the fragment. If text is rendered rather then the
html then there is a syntax error that causes it to fail.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

>I am trying to send an email that contains HTML code fragments to allow the
> recipient to navigate around the mail. I have managed once to send the
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> the mail when sent contains the code rather than a link. Must be doing
> something really stupid

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John - 24 Jun 2005 15:58 GMT

I hvae don a bit more of my own investigation and the problem is not as I
described it. I am using publisher to generate an ezine. When I view this
page as a web page and do as you say below then the fragment works. However
when I come to send the web page as an email (File Send Page as E-mail) in
some instances it attaches the web page as a file and other times it just
uses the web page as the main body of th e email. When it does the latter the
fragments work beautifully. However I can not get this to happen by design it
just does some times. Any ideas..

> Review the code snippet in the fragment. If text is rendered rather then the
> html then there is a syntax error that causes it to fail.
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> > the mail when sent contains the code rather than a link. Must be doing
> > something really stupid

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 24 Jun 2005 19:48 GMT

I myself don't use the emailing feature, other then during beta tests. and
personally I hate html email. The emailing feature is supposed to render the
html code of the document in the body of the message (hence "html" email)
versus an attachment. With out having a lot of experience in using the
feature all I can suggest is basics... double check that your "steps" are
identical and consistent across attempts and that the content is the same
context (as in maybe a certain type of object forces an attachment). And
make sure the html code fragments have valid html/syntax, and that the
document has no "issues" (run Design Checker!)

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

>I hvae don a bit more of my own investigation and the problem is not as I
> described it. I am using publisher to generate an ezine. When I view this
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>> > the mail when sent contains the code rather than a link. Must be doing
>> > something really stupid

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Mark Manning - 01 Dec 2005 14:59 GMT

I have a very similar problem, when I choose File, Send E-mail, Send this
Page as Message (Publisher 2003) it inserts the file as the body of the
e-mail but I get the code boxes rather than the links and anchors - Have you
found a way of making this work every time?

> I hvae don a bit more of my own investigation and the problem is not as I
> described it. I am using publisher to generate an ezine. When I view this
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> > > the mail when sent contains the code rather than a link. Must be doing
> > > something really stupid

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