Bear in mind that you have absolutely no control over how a recipient views
your message. Those of us who are careful about what we open have our mail
readers set to display only plain text. The only way to ensure that your
message is seen as intended is to send it as a PDF format attachment, for
which you'll need extra software to create the PDFs.
See the article prepared by fellow MVP Doug Robbins at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm
Whether or not Word 2002 can merge to e-mail in html format (and I seem to
recall that it could not do this), Word 2003 can now do so and my tests with
an html merge with graphics to e-mail worked as you intended.
If you send hundreds of e-mails, your sending address will very quickly find
itself blacklisted as that of a spammer.

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> Matt
moscatomg1@yahoo.com - 17 Jan 2006 15:25 GMT
Well the PDF way does not sound like what I want to do, but thanks
anyway. And I appreciate the extra feedback/concern, although I am not
sure what you specifically mean by "blacklisted", other than meaning
that a given recipient would block future messages from my address; or
is there some federal database to which you are referring? Regardless,
I really do not consider what I do to be spamming. I focus on a very,
very specific target audience so only interested parties receive
e-mail, always scaning my computer first to make sure I'm not sending
out viruses, and I always include info as to how their info was
obtained and easy instructions on how to opt out of future mailings. I
know from experience of what I've received that many true Spammers
don't take any of these extra measures.
Anyway, I'll likely just go back to sending e-mails without images
again, since I do realize that others, like myself included, use
methods to block most images in e-mails.
Matt
> Bear in mind that you have absolutely no control over how a recipient views
> your message. Those of us who are careful about what we open have our mail
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