How are you trying to select? Press Ctrl+A. Does that do it?
Also, for the picture to be visible in the Outlook email message, you have
to be using a format other than plain text.

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>I have an image from Paint that I imported into a Word document for a
> combined text/graphic image. I want to paste the whole thing into the body
> of
> an Outlook email. I can't select all to paste all. Any other ideas?
> Thanks