mail merging formatted content

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raj

I am using Outlook 2000 SR1 and Word 2000 SR1.

I have an email message that I need to send to everyone in my
contacts folder. I know I can create a distribution list and place
it in the bcc: field, with my own email in the To: field, but I
need each recipient to see only their own email, not mine or
others, in the To: field. So I tried Mail Merge. The body of my
message contains some formatted text and also few images. I
changed my Outlook's Mail Format as HTML and MSWord as my email
editor. When I send the messages through mail merge, the
receiver's mail is not formatted, and also no images are seen.

But, when I send a mail individually to them, the receiver
receives the mail in HTML format.

I also checked the recipient's property "Send email using plain
text only" and it is checked OFF.

Can some one please suggest me what is going wrong here?
 
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Nothing is wrong. It is very well documented that in versions that old, mail
merges have always defaulted to plain text.
 
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