Emailing Powerpoint Flyers w/Links & All

[Guest]

Someone told me that it is possible to email flyers that I've created via
email using MS Outlook. If I have inserted links in the flyer itself, how
can I email this out to people without it coming across as an attachment? I
want them to open their emails and see the flyer without having to open up an
attachment. How do I do this? Is this possible?

 

[Sonia]

You can't do that. You would need to create your flyer right in Outlook in HTML
format.

To email a PowerPoint presentation, it must be an attachment. If there are also
files that are linked, you're best bet is to Zip all of the files together and
send them as a single attachment with instructions to the recipient on how to
unzip and open them.

Depending on what kind of files are linked, a better alternative might be to
save the presentation as HTML and place it on a website.

 

[Echo S]

Well, I've received "ppt" files embedded in emails before. I suspect that
the person just copies a slide in slide sorter view then pastes into an HTML
email pane. It's basically just an image at that point, and I've never
received one with a link, so I don't know what would happen to that -- I
doubt it would be active.

 

[Sonia]

Yeh, you can paste images into Outlook, for example. But you lose the links,
music, etc. It works differently in OE. In OE you can create limited HTML that
uses music and has hyperlinks, but if the links are to files and not URL's
they'll be absolute links and the linked files don't get sent, so broken links
result.

Well, I've received "ppt" files embedded in emails before. I suspect that
the person just copies a slide in slide sorter view then pastes into an HTML
email pane. It's basically just an image at that point, and I've never
received one with a link, so I don't know what would happen to that -- I
doubt it would be active.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

You can't do that. You would need to create your flyer right in Outlook in HTML
format.

To email a PowerPoint presentation, it must be an attachment. If there are also
files that are linked, you're best bet is to Zip all of the files together and
send them as a single attachment with instructions to the recipient on how to
unzip and open them.

Depending on what kind of files are linked, a better alternative might be to
save the presentation as HTML and place it on a website.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials