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distorted layout by email
Hi everyone,
I am trying to send a published article that I wrote, along with a cover letter and a CV (curriculum vitae/résumé) through Outlook 2002 email to about 1500 recipients. In a test, where I sent the article/CV as an attachment, too many in the test couldn't read the attachment after it was opened. Those were primarily AOL users. Then I tried to send it all in one email, inserted one after the other, but the format got terribly screwed up in the email. I used my professional stationery template, for the cover letter. It has three text boxes on top. First there is a large text box in the middle, for my Name, professional designations, address, telephones and two others flanking it; one for memberships and the other noting the exclusivity of my practice. In the emails, the text boxes are vertical, not in a "wishbone", as they appear in Word. Then the text from the CV got screwed up. It overruns the right margin of the email. I am using HTML and Word as my editor. I even tried disabling filtering. When my e-mail opens, the scale on the top goes from 0 to 10. I tried to bring in the margins but I can't. I don't understand why a regular Word document doesn't go in as is. Actually, the original document has columns with my picture in the middle of the two columns with the text wrapped around it. Those columns were removed in the email and the picture and another text box, highlighting a sentence in the article, were off to the side. The article/CV was 250K (now 130k) because my picture was inserted. I wonder if that could have screwed up the attachment for AOL users. My questions now a 1. Do I give up the text boxes and the columns? 2. How do I get the letter to fit within the margins of the email? 3. Should I use HTML or Rich Text. If so, will that exclude users who designate plain text and what about AOL users? Someone in another news group told me to use tables rather than text boxes. I never used tables and wonder what that would look like to most recipients, all of whom are attorneys, with a variety of email systems. 4. Can you recommend a good book on these practical problems of formatting in emails? |
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distorted layout by email
Yes, as I said in my response to your other post on this subject, you need
to use tables instead of text boxes and columns, which HTML format messages don't support. Tables are the standard method of laying out HTML content. Many of the web pages that you visit use them, but you can't tell. (HINT: Turn off borders.) Another approach might be to send your CV as a plain text message with the Word document attached for those who want a fancier version. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I am trying to send a published article that I wrote, along with a cover letter and a CV (curriculum vitae/résumé) through Outlook 2002 email to about 1500 recipients. In a test, where I sent the article/CV as an attachment, too many in the test couldn't read the attachment after it was opened. Those were primarily AOL users. Then I tried to send it all in one email, inserted one after the other, but the format got terribly screwed up in the email. I used my professional stationery template, for the cover letter. It has three text boxes on top. First there is a large text box in the middle, for my Name, professional designations, address, telephones and two others flanking it; one for memberships and the other noting the exclusivity of my practice. In the emails, the text boxes are vertical, not in a "wishbone", as they appear in Word. Then the text from the CV got screwed up. It overruns the right margin of the email. I am using HTML and Word as my editor. I even tried disabling filtering. When my e-mail opens, the scale on the top goes from 0 to 10. I tried to bring in the margins but I can't. I don't understand why a regular Word document doesn't go in as is. Actually, the original document has columns with my picture in the middle of the two columns with the text wrapped around it. Those columns were removed in the email and the picture and another text box, highlighting a sentence in the article, were off to the side. The article/CV was 250K (now 130k) because my picture was inserted. I wonder if that could have screwed up the attachment for AOL users. My questions now a 1. Do I give up the text boxes and the columns? 2. How do I get the letter to fit within the margins of the email? 3. Should I use HTML or Rich Text. If so, will that exclude users who designate plain text and what about AOL users? Someone in another news group told me to use tables rather than text boxes. I never used tables and wonder what that would look like to most recipients, all of whom are attorneys, with a variety of email systems. 4. Can you recommend a good book on these practical problems of formatting in emails? |
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