Email merge format changes in Yahoo, gmail

Question

I'm doing a large email merge from Word 2007 to Outlook 2007. The email look great if they are opened in Outlook or hotmail, but in gmail, yahoo, etc. the paragraph settings and some of the font sizes are incorrect. Is there anything I can do in the Word to correct this? I had originally used 'space before and space after' paragraph settings, but then some email programs didn't render that and the paragraphs were all jammed together. So then I took out the space before and after and put in a hard return. Then they DOUBLE spaced in the other email programs. So right now, my choices are 'all jammed together' or 'all stretched out'.

Any help here?

Chris

Answer 1

I think I figured it out, at least for most of the document. I put in two line breaks instead of paragraph break and that works better in other email software (Yahoo, gmail)

Thanks

Chris

Answer 2

Word document format and html and plain text e-mail formats are entirely different - and many e-mail applications will not handle rich text format. The answer for any document to be sent as e-mail where layout is important is to send it as an attachment

• preferably in PDF format.

To that end you should find http://www.gmayor.com/MailMergeWithAttachments.htm useful.

Answer 3

What version document was it saved as, 2007 ?

If so see if re-saving it as a 2003 compatible will help.