>>I want the email body to have the contents of the coppins.doc
>>So i set the body as loEmail.Body = FileToStr("c:\my documents\the coppins.doc")
>>The resultant email is rubbish with all different font sizes
>>If I set the email body as coppins.htm - the resultant email is OK
>>Is FileToStr("c:\my documents\the coppins.doc") the wrong way of specifying a document as body of mail?
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>yes
>email clients expect only pure text or html streams and some clients are set not show html.
>other file formats should be set as attachments, so clients can try to open other applications to show attachment

if I am sending to clients which read htm or html how can I put pictures in the file - I have one gif and one jpg image in the file

Does this mean that I have to send the file as an attachment?