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spinningjennie
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How:Fancy font Email Newsletter-merged - 11/6/2003 21:30:31
I think it's possible to create a fancy font email newsletter to merge with a database.
But how do you create it?
Background:
I know how to create a merged email in Word, which goes to a list of email addresses, but there is no fancy font formatting possible, nor ability to include a graphic.
I've tried to save a Word document as an html file then do File, Send, but the file is sent as an attachment rather than as the email content, which I require.
Many thanks for any assistance!
spinningjennie
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Nancy
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RE: How:Fancy font Email Newsletter-merged - 11/7/2003 0:46:07
Not sure what you mean by "fancy font" but an html newsletter is going to react just as a web page will -- if the viewer doesn't have that font installed, they won't see the font you intended. You should stick with the standard fonts.
If you have Outlook Express, you can create your html page, then in OE create a new message, click in the message area, go to Insert>text from file>change the dropdown type from text to html and browse to your already created page. Then send to your list of users. Any graphics in an html newsletter should be on a server and the path to the image should be an absolute path.
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RE: How:Fancy font Email Newsletter-merged - 11/12/2003 8:19:53
Nancy,
Many thanks for your advice!
I now finally understand how to incorporate an html document into an email, without it just being an attachment!
However, the part I'm still unclear of......
Do you or another person know the best way to then send out that email newsletter to a few hundred names in a membership database?
Should I enter the email addresses into the (blind copy) bcc address space in Outlook Express, or is there a better way?
Background to my question:
Prior to receiving Nancy's advice, I was thinking I might be able to merge name data from Excel with newsletter info from Word, and send the newsletter to people via a mail merged email. I have used this electronic mail merging feature in Word to send a large number of personalised emails to people. The only negative is that the font that is used is a very basic courier, and no formatting is possible, unless you send the Word doc as an attachment. That is why I said I wanted to incorporate a 'fancy font.' I don't really want to be very very fancy.
Thanks again for consideration of this issue.
spinningjennie
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