How Can I Send My Newsletter Without It Getting Jumbled?

[jessicafawn]

Hello Everyone... I just completed my newsletter for June and want to send it to all of my customers. My question is how do I make it into a read only document or lock everything together (text boxes) to make sure it doesn't get all jumbled if they end up click on anything. I also want to send it in the body of the message vs. as an attachment... any suggestions???

 

[chefann]

If you use Word and Outlook Express (Or Word and Entourage, if you're on a Mac), you can use Mail Merge within Word to create your messages. Set up a list in Word or Excel of your addresses and open that as the data list in the Mail Merge toolbar. Then create your newsletter. Select Merge to Outbox from the merge toolbar. Word will create one note for each address in your outbox, with the text/images of the note as the body of the message.

 

[jessicafawn]

Thanks Chefann... I'm going to send a test email to myself to make sure it goes ok... don't want to look silly to everyone if I've made a mistake.

Thanks again!!!

 

[wadesgirl]

By the way, just had to say your picture is so cute!

 

[jessicafawn]

Thanks... my Grandmother always says "it's like Officer & A Gentlemen" but he's a chief... HA HA HA. Thanks again!

 

[jessicafawn]

Unfortunately I was unaware that we don't have Office on either our Mac or PC... so does anyone have any ideas to get my newsletter in the body of an email vs an attachment other then Mail Merge???

 

[chefann]

Open Office might be able to do it. It's a free suite of programs that does a lot of the same stuff as Office. It's available for PC and Mac, and can be downloaded from openoffice.org.

 

[jessicafawn]

Thanks.... You're so helpful!!!!

 

[jessicafawn]

Well I've had no luck with my PC or Mac or Open Office... so I've decided to just send it as an attachment. Hopefully people will still read it. Thanks for all of your help... Here's my newsletter if you want to see it. It was inspired by Rebecca Voytko's here on Chef Success. Hopefully you can all read it ok. Now I'm going to get started on July's & August's so at least I'll have a head-start. Thanks again!!!