How do I force Outlook 2007 to not mess with an image I am inserti

[Mike Gale]

I have recently switched to OL 2007. I am currently witholding my judgement
but I am not impressed.

I have a bunch of images, colour matched and sized, as I want them. They're
jpegs.

I insert them into an email. The dumb interface I have gotten so far
doesn't simply insert what I give it. It doesn't even appear to have a way
to define sizes in pixels (immediately after inserting). Instead I get
dimensions that I don't want (cm) in the property editor.

After sending the email I find that I can forward a copy and get an
interface that enables me to set pixels. This property editor is different
from that on insert. (In other words after the horse has bolted it half
works for me.)

It also seems that the carefully formatted images got mutilated as sent by
the program. In other words it has embedded images that are not what I gave
it.

Is there a way to stop this nonsense on insert?

 

[Mike Gale]

No replies, I guess there's no hidden part of the UI that fixes this. Maybe
I won't bother to have visible images in emails in future. (I just attached
the set I sent today.)

For those who find this post and want an answer, here's answers of a kind.

1) In the past I have created well formed markup with images. Installed it
as template. That works, though Outlook makes a bit of a mess of the markup
when you invoke the template. It's a fair amount of work for a simple one
off email though.

2) I've seen that some people who do a lot of this sort of thing have
installed Thunderbird for it. Keeping the images in the Outlook message
store (pst's etc.) is probably not trivial (so be warned).