I am trying to take a Microsoft Publisher file that I have created and send it off in an email. Sounds pretty easy, right? Well I do not want to send it as an attachment. When someone opens the email I want it to look like I sent them a webpage. I want to do this because I want to eliminate as many steps for the recipient as possible, and not everyone has adobe or publisher to open an attachment. I know this can be done because most of the marketing companies send out flyers via email and they open right in the body of the email when you open the email. I have tried to convert the .pub file to just about everything and I can't figure it out. Please help...

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Gatlinburg TN Real Estate | Pigeon Forge Real Estate | Sevierville TN Real Estate

First off, you need to make sure you can send out HTML emails.

Secondly, you compose the email in HTML.

Third, make sure your recipients can receive HTML emails. If not, put a line saying 'If you can't read this, put this into your browser' etc, or some other phrase, even though it won't work

Lastly, click send.

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If you're using Outlook, it should automatically use HTML format when you compose a message. Most importantly, send yourself test messages in a lot web mail clients, so you can see the results.
Traditionally, HTML emails (like newsletters) etc require some design - just copy/pasted text from MS Word docs can look pretty sketchy and may not render wll in all browsers/clients.
So if you use dreamweaver or something, just add a table about 500px wide, paste everything into there, and design until you get a look your happy with. Make sure that DW isnt inserting its random inline CSS though, as that could cause issues in browsers clients.

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Jeff
admin@dcvegas.com
Diversified Computation
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Outlook uses Microsoft Word, which sometimes does funny ways with formatting, so watch out.

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Good point - however, the difference between using sraight handwritten HTML and the HTML that MS Outlook uses (you actually have to set outlook to use word as your default text editor) is that _most_ (definitely not all) email clients, if they dont undestand the markup, will ignore the Outlook HTML and convert the message to plain text. Not too great, but if you're using normal bullet points and stuff, it should render readable text, for the most part. Straight HTML however, just displays the HTML, which is a mess to read.

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Jeff
admin@dcvegas.com
Diversified Computation
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I don't want to sound condescending, but in order to look like you're sending a webpage, you have to actually send a webpage.

Here's what I would do and have done:

1. I would code the email just as you would any other web page. Let me rephrase that - I would code the email page using the lowest common standards that are accepted by your intended audience's mail readers (outlook, gmail, aol, hotmail, etc...) There is great information at www campaignmonitor. com that I've used as a reference before. They've got tons of info about how to and how not to create an HTML email.

2. Post the page and images, etc.. to your website in a folder you name. Like "Emails" or "NewListings".

3. Navigate to the page you've just created and "Select All".

4. If you're using Outlook, navigate to "Actions: New Mail Message Using: Microsoft Outlook (HTML)" and create a new blank message.

5. Paste the page you copied into the blank message and send yourself a copy. And fix the errors you will definitely have... coding for mail clients is a little nutty.

6. When you're happy, email to your heart's content.

FYI, I wouldn't suggest using Outlook as the place to mass-send your emails... I would consider using a company like Campaign Monitor to do it for you.. they do a good job and have awesome reporting about who clicked what when, etc... maybe REW could make something like it and offer it to their peeps... I use CM for my emails...

Hope that helps.

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JesseBee
Coldwell Banker Previews International

Orange County Real Estate | Coto de Caza Real Estate | Irvine Real Estate

The way I do it is to save the flyer as a jpg and then just insert the picture into your email. Put the cursor where you want it to go and click "insert picture". You have to resize it so it displays correctly I use around 640 X 800 and it is readable and not too big.

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Dan Connolly
Atlanta Georgia
Atlanta Georgia Real Estate
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Actually, It's really simple if I remember right. I don't have Publisher on this computer so I can't be exact, but there is a button on the top menu bar for emailing. All you have to do is select email as a page, select your recipients and your done. It won't be an attachment, just a plain old page when they open up the email.

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