OK, so it sounds like, perhaps you just want to get the job done, even if it might (perhaps) involve using some black-box software solution that you might not completely understand the internals of. If so, then (assuming that using MS Outlook is out of the question), I think you can send "html" mail using Yahoo! mail, or using Gmail. ("google" mail). I now use [mostly] the latter, ("such as", THIS message!) but I have used both. They are both free as in, suitable for (/compatible with) a tight budget. (not expensive). So, one of those might be one good way to do what you want done... Note: It lets you easily do stuff like bold, underlined, italic font, other fonts, such as fixed-width font, and/or more than one of the above at a time. Go crazy... sincerely yours, Mike Schwartz [see .Sig at the end - - way below "quoted" stuff from previous messages in this "thread"]. On 4/6/07, Michael Havens wrote: > > Ohhhh.... you think I have bad intentions? Not I! I send my father a > spreadsheet as an attachment (oocalc) weekly and he requested I send it in > the body of the text. Now I need to find out how to do this! > > Thanks for the information you gave. I guess all the spam I get has a > purpose > now! > > lol > > On Friday 06 April 2007 12:08 pm, Alan Dayley wrote: > > Reply bottom posted... > > > > vodhner@cox.net wrote: > > > Hi, Michael. > > > > > > ---- Michael Havens wrote: > > >> I want to embed things into an email so that they appear as the > > >> text of the message rather than as an attachment. > > > > > > What you are describing sounds like an HTML email message. If you > really > > > know your audience for the message, this may be OK. But there are > some > > > things you should know . . . > > > [...] > > > Good luck, > > > > > > Vic > > > Victor, > > > > This is one of the best explanations about the negatives of HTML email > > that I have every read. Thank you! > > > > Can I quote you? > > > > Alan > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > [reply from M.S. (April 8) top posted; see above...] from -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com