Hello - I have encounterd an issue with email merge and it is totally infuriating me with Microsoft to the point that I am going to try an Apple or even Open Office. I can not email merge HTML - only Text.

I purchased a laptop with Vista (big mistake) and loaded office 2003 and SP3. I also purchased Outlook 2007 in hopes that this would remedy the situation, but no chance. I can only merge text, not HTML. Also, even with that I get the very irritating messages stating that another program is trying to send an email (for each message). Aside from the HTML problem, what is the remedy for the pesky message? I have tried turing off the firewall but can not find any other solution.

I have also tried multiple variations of SW, and will not try removing outlook 2007 and re- installing outlook 2003 (as this combination works fine on my other laptop (running XP).