I have Word 2002 SP3 and Outlook 2002 SP3. In Outlook I use Word to
compose emails. In the past I have done a mail merge between them
without any problem. All of a sudden it doesn't seem to work right
anymore.

I set up a document in Word with a separate data source. When it is
ready to be mailed, I click on Merge to Email. The "To" field is
assigned the email addresses and I fill in the subject line. After I
click OK, the status line tells me it is merging the records and it
cycles through all of them.


However, when I bring in to focus the Outlook window, nothing is
happening. The messages do not go in to the Outbox, nor do they show
in the Sent Items folder. This problem only occurs when I try to send
it in HTML format. If I do it as plain text, it works fine, just as
it
always has.


Why doesn't Word send the messages to Outlook?