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Thanks for your help NW. If I discover anything else that may help I'll post it.

It's fine when I email it to myself, but I have discovered that many other people have received 'distorted' versions of the document - I do not know what version of Word they are using. Someone has suggested that Word is not really intended to be used for layout and that drawing elements can appear differently depending on the Word settings of the person opening the document. I wonder if there is a way to embed the settings so that they are carried with the document???

When I create a Word (2000) document including some drawing elements (text boxes etc.) and email it as an attachment using Outlook Express (ver. 6), the document received by the recipients bears little resemblance to the original. Any ideas why this happens and how I can overcome it? Incidentally, I have established that it is not a PC/Mac incompatibility problem, and that documents without drawing elements are fine.

I’m trying to merge data from Excel (ver. 2000) into a Word (ver. 2000) document to create a series of emails in Outlook Express (ver. 6). The process is working but with some glitches: [1] When I get to the final stage of the merge, Outlook Express asks me to confirm every email that is being sent, despite OE being set not to do so. [2] I want to automatically add a ‘signature’ (my address details in a font and colour different from the rest of the text) to the end of every message. Where should I set this up, in OE, Word or Excel? [3] This is the most important one!… The emails are being created in a font not used in any of the constituent documents. How can I set it to create them in the font I want? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated