>>>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
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>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?

Unless the pics are on a webserver with accessible URI you can supply. Depends a lot on roster of email clients you need to support and you might google on embed images in html .