Gaps appear in the design after an email merge

[Fanie]

I have designed an email in Publisher 2007 that I want to merge with a number
of email addresses and other data. The size of the completed email is about
21cm x 53 cm.

Everything works perfect until after the merge. When I open some of the
products of the email merge (before sending them off), I discover that all of
them have text and lines missing in the horizontal area between 46 and 48 cm
from the top of the document. In that area the merged emails are completely
blank

I have tried over and over again to solve the mysterious problem, without
any success.

Please advise.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Try reviewing this article:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA102200511033.aspx

 

[Fanie]

Thank you for your response, Charles, but the article does not address my
problem.
--
Fanie
Pretoria
South Africa

Try reviewing this article:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA102200511033.aspx

 

[Mary Sauer]

Outlook?
How to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226/en-us

Are you sending these emails via HTML?

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


--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

Thank you for your response, Charles, but the article does not address my
problem.

 

[Matt]

I have had the same issue for over a year. By checking in a web browser I can
see how the email merge will appear in most email clients (thunderbird,
gmail, etc.). The formatting is generally a bit different and must be trial
and error tweaked to get it right (not WYSIWYG! ). But the formatting when
the merged email is viewed in Outlook 2007 is usually different & worse. With
some email publications I just give up on getting them to display correctly.
The Outlook performance troubleshooting does not seem to help.

I am sending via html, and thankfully sending them through Outlook07 (SP1) &
Business Contact Manager does not damage them - as long as you do not view
the finished product in Outlook2007. I am not sure how they appear in earlier
versions of Outlook.

Unless I am mistaken, by saving as a mht file you can no longer do an email
merge? Please let me know how if you can.
I am merging with a large distribution list, and that is the primary
function I invested in the software for.

Help would be much appreciated, and save many hours.
Thanks.
-Matt