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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 are:
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?
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 are:
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?