How do you email a HTML document?

[Tabby]

I've created an HTML newsletter in WORD and trying to email it using Outlook. My newsletter contains images and hyperlinks to the web an woks fine when I view it in I.E. BUT how do I send it to other using Outlook (not as an attachment but a HTML document).
Thanks,
Tabby.

[Buenchico]

This isn't an area I claim to know a great deal about but, as I see it, you're trying to do the impossible.

e-mail clients, such as Outlook, can handle basic HTML (so that they can display different fonts and pictures embeddded in emails) but I don't think that they can handle the complex HTML used by web pages designed in Word.

There's a very simple way to find out if my theory is correct: Right-click on the HTML file and select 'open with'. Choose to open the file with Outlook. If I'm right, you'll get a message saying that Outlook can't open the file. (If Outlook can't open it on your computer, it won't be able to open it on any of the computers that you send it to). If I'm wrong and it opens correctly, you should now be able to send it to your own e-mail address, as a test post.

However, I'm fairly certain that Outlook won't be able to display the page and you'll be forced to send it as an attachment.

Sorry!

Chris

PS: If, like most people, you receive spam, ask yourself if you've ever received a spammed HTML page. I certainly never have; in every case the spammers have sent a link to a page, rather than the page itself. This seems to back up my view that it's not possible to e-mail a full HTMLpage. (If it was, I'm sure that the spammers would do it!)

[rojash]

Even if you send the file as an attachment, they will not be able to view it correctly unless you also send all the pictures as attachments. HTML documents don't actually contain images, they refer to images. What's more, if the references to the images are to a specific location on the disk, they will need to be placed in the same location on the recipient's disk!

An easy way to solve the problem would be to convert the fiel to a pdf and send that as an attachment.

You can convert it using a free application (such as PrimoPDF) which you download and install as a printer driver. Then, open the document in word, choose file/print and select the PrimoPDF printer and give the output file a name.

Attach the result to your e-mail.

[Tabby]

Thanks for your answers, but after some more playing, I think I've found a solution !!

I feel a bit guilty for answering my own question so I better tell you what I have found just in case you are interested...

In Outlook 2000 (not express), goto Tools - Options. Click on the Mail Format tab. In the drop down box for Message Format, Choose HTML.

Then the next time you click 'new' (for new message) it looks the same as normal except you get 'untitled message - HTML' in the top windows line.

Then....
I opened up the HTML document with WORD (not the default I.E.), Ctrl A (to select all), Ctrl C (to copy). Then I pasted this into the empty outlook message and... it all worked including the images from the internet and hyperlinks.

Maybe there is a better way, but at least it worked.

Tabby.