Email newsletters

[S Reeve]

I want to create a one page email newsletter (with hyperlinks) using
publisher then be able to send it out to a list of 200+ addresses via Gmail
(Group mail) so I can personalise each message. I do not want to use it as a
Pdf attachment. Please advise how this can b done. I have tried with no
success.
Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

How to save your publication as a Web Archive in Publisher and share it in
e-mail
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312157/en-us

 

[S Reeve]

Thanks Mary,

I tried and I can still not paste the full one page newsletter into my
e-mail message. I do not want to send it as an attachment but as an e-mail. I
have Publisher 2003. Any ideas as to what I should be doing.?

Cheers - Scott

 

[Mary Sauer]

Might try this
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/multipageemail

If your recipients have HTML messages disabled, your newsletter will arrive as
plain text and the images will be attachments. A PDF is an alternative. Or place
the newsletter on a web page.

 

[S Reeve]

Thanks Mary,

PDF won't work as I have hyperlinks in the copy to other websites. All I
want to do is to send a one page newsletter as an email message and not as an
attachment.
Thanks in advance

 

[Mary Sauer]

Hyperlinks work in a PDF. If you have Acrobat it isn't difficult to have the
links active. There are free converters around as well as modestly priced
converters that can preserve hyperlinks.
Do a Google search.

 

[DavidF]

Email from Publisher works only with Outlook and OE. Reference "Create and
send e-mail publications using Publisher"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010743381033.aspx

DavidF

 

[S Reeve]

HI Mary,

I accept that but it still means I have to send it as an attachment. I want
to send it as an email message.

Thanks in advance

 

[JGFreund]

Hi Mary, I have a related new-user question:

I'm creating a Newsletter using Publisher 2000 which is to be sent as a PDF.
I want to include hyperlinks for our readers who will read it on their
computer and click through to web content (e.g. full versions of articles
that I'm only including the headlines for).

I'm using the newsletter template bc many other readers will print it out as
hardcopy.

I do not have any Insert->Hyperlink command available. Is that a limitation
of Pub 2000, or the Newsletter template?

Is my solution to add hyperlinks in the PDF software?

Thanks,
Jonathan

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Pub 2000 thinks that the only thing that uses a hyperlink is a website, not
a newsletter. Time to upgrade - plus you will find your file sizes are
smaller and you will have Print Preview. It's worth it.

 

[JGFreund]

thanks. I'm sure it is worth it...now I just have to convince the powers that
be.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Understood.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

thanks. I'm sure it is worth it...now I just have to convince the powers
that
be.

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you aren't ready to upgrade, you can add hyperlinks within a PDF.

 

[DavidF]

Make a backup copy of your newsletter, and then open that file. Then File >
Create Website from Current Publication. You will get a dialog about saving
your print document, but because you are working on a back up copy, just
ignore that. When it is finished you will be able to insert a hyperlink.

Test your results by creating your PDF file and see if the links survive.
Some PDF tools will render active links, some won't. This is the case with
Pub 2003 too. Also printout the PDF copy of the converted newsletter. By
converting it to a "website" the formatting might not be acceptable.

If you are by chance producing a website with Pub 2000, then you would not
want to upgrade to Pub 2003, except for print documents. You can run both on
your computer.

DavidF