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 <bmike101@cox.net> 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 <bmike101@cox.net> 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
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