to 2003 and probably 2007 too. So give it a try. The secret is to create the HTML email outside of any Microsoft product (MS are useless at HTML -- they add so much unnecessary and non-standard markup), then 'include' it in your email using the method I have described. But remember, if you're sending the email to say 100 recipients or even more, then that is 100 individual emails being sent from your computer through the mail server, and a lot of ISP's don't like that (in fact, a lot of them have limits on the amount of email you can send), so there is a fairly high chance you could get blacklisted using this method for bulk email (depending on your server arrangement). Have a look at MailChimp too. They have a free service which should cater for most small time needs. As Dave and Rob say outlook is not a tool for creating or sending html emails, although it is possible to a fashion it should be avoided at all costs. Microsoft applications are particularly bad at doing anything that has to follow any kind of standards, the reason why we have to use these old fashioned and long winded ways in the first place is because Microsoft won't render anything correctly in its email clients as it uses word as its rendering engine which is not designed to handle html in the same way as a browser does. The reason it chose to do it this