Sue said:

What happens when you try?

I was able to see the new item in the drafts folder of outlook, but not open
it.

I found that if, after

itm.Save

I add a line

activedocument.close wdsavechanges = false

.. . . it works as you said it would, opening the message for further
processing and a final "send".

It ends up as an HTML message and I would have liked RTF, but I guess the
newspapers can live with that.

Thank you for your help and helpful nudge.

Sincerely,

Ridge