FAQ: How to create formatted messages using MS Word ?

[styrsky]

I purchased MailBoy in 2004 and have used it succesfully to send thousands of emails out... great product.  THANKS!

One thing I am having a hard time figuring out is how to get my emails to look nice.  At the moment, they all come out with ZERO bold, underlines, italics, etc.  I normally creat the email in WORD but when I pull it over to MailBoy, all the formatting is lost.  

What is the easiest way to format this so it looks good?  

I also want my emails to have a hyperlink in them.  I am completely ignorant when it comes to HTML programming... is that the only way to do it?  Help appreciated...

Asher

[alex]

Hi,

Here is in few steps how to create formatted text with hyperlinks in MS Word and send it using MailBoy 2004.

First, start MS Word and type the text for your message and format it as you like. You can include hyperlinks if you like.


 


Note that you must not include pictures as they will not appear in the message, because of the specific html formatting that MS Word produces. If you want to have pictures in your message, you have to add them as described in this article:
http://mailboysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6


After the message is ready and formatted, save it as a web page using the File menu:





Now in MailBoy 2004 use the "load" button located bellow the message box and browse the file you have saved from MS Word as a html page.

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE "Send as HTML message" OPTION below the message box before sending:




I hope this will help. If you have more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us or post here.

[Wraakian]

  Just to let you know that this also worked perfectly in IBM's Lotus WordPro using the save as an HTML file option
am now going to try putting pictures into my emails which looks harder!

regs

Jim

[pjjacinto]

I followed the detailed procedures above and saved my word document into web page but now there are undesired symbols in my email. (mostly "=" signs which were not in my original draft). Now it just looks worse and I can't possibly send these letters out looking like this. Are there any particular settings that I should know about before saving my word 2003 documents into web pages? Help please...Thanks.

[alex]

Hi,

Is your Word document with non Latin letters?

[Brookstone]

I am having the same problem as pjjacinto, How do I know if my word document is with non Latin letters? I dont see this option anywhere. Can you please explain in further detail how I can fix this.
 Thanks Eric