How to send a formal PDF/MS Word invitation in the body of an email?

[bubbasmith99]

I created an invitation for a business cocktail reception in Microsoft Word. Turned out real nice. Plan originally was to PDF it and send it to the invitees via email as an attachment.

But now we want to make it so that when the invitee opens up the email he/she sees the invitation itself. I managed to copy the different fields and text boxes into an Outlook email composition (using Word as the email editor) to more or less mimic the original invitation.

But when that is sent, it is sent along with a bunch of attachments which you can see at the bottom of the page. Any idea how those attachments can be suppressed or hidden from view?

Failing that, is there any way that we can have the actualy pdf itself work as the email/invitation?

 

[Drakkon]

Each mail viewer is different andc each person cn have it be configured different...therefor no there is no way to acheive what your going for. Once you get it working on your computer it wont work on bosses, once it works on bosses it wont work on anyone elses. Its all up to whoever the reciever is, some may use outlook, while others use some webmail, while others might use eudora.
The best thing is to just leave the pdf as an attachment and let people download/view as they want...

 

[labgeek]

Hey you forgot pine and elm ... I feel slighted. j/k

Drakkon has a good point. Another to think about it Word documents are known to carry a virus or two with them often. Mail clients are often set not to allow them even as attachments.

 

[Cadaver]

I'd send it as a PDF file. I'd think it's even more universal than a .doc file, especially people who use Linux or Mac.