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If you sign up for email updates or notices from a company, are you put off by HTML formatting (images / background colors / etc) in the emails? Is there a point where the HTML formatting is too much? How to you feel about: inline links, font-sizes / text-formatting, background colors, tables, etc? What’s acceptable and what isn’t?

want to do in Microsoft Word.. how do I do it so I can have a newspaper design/headline in the background and heading… to make it look almost like a real news letter…

If someone out there can give me an exact STEP BY STEP way to do this, I would appreciate it so much. I am new to the new version of Word… so all the help would be better.

Thank you!! Ten points best answer.
can someone out there take a couple minutes and help me out.. people ask the dumbest questions on here and get answers…

any nice people out there that know a lot about computers?
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I have to create a monthly social newlsetter for the co-op I live in and I need to be able to easily update and change it…I’m pretty experienced with Photoshop but was wondering if there was a program that wasn’t as time consuming.

I created a document in Word with the intention of putting it into an email, with pictures, columns, etc. I thought I could just copy and paste, but it didn’t work. I tried using publisher but it’s not working. The formatting just won’t show up in the email, and on top of that, the pictures don’t show up, there’s just a box with the little broken macro symbol.

I’ve received emails before with html formatting and whatnot and it came up like a webpage. How do I do that??!!!?!!

Take this situation: a quite popular blog which requires valid email address for commenting. Owner wants to use these email addresses for sending periodical email newsletters to the commenters (I would be the coder who creates the back end to do this). I’m a bit concerned, because the commenters left those addresses with one particular purpose and they were never told that it will be used for newsletters. Is this ethical?

Additionally, they would be able to opt out from this system but only after receiving the first newsletter.

Thanks in advance