Help! Word 2007 Email Merge Image Compression

[alltherage]

I'm trying to do an Email Merge advertisment in Word 2007, and it keeps compressing my images to nasty jpgs with all kinds of artifacting.

I can't for the life of me get it to stop compressing! I've tried

• compressing the image in Corel Paint Shop before moving inserting it
• compressing and splitting the image into three files before inserting in word
• Various file types from png to jpg to bmp (gif doesn't have enough colors and looks gross
• compressing right in word in the format tab

The image I am using is colorful... it is supposed to catch my customer's eye.

Does anyone know what I can do? Is there a way to disable the compression?? Can I find a perfect size that will not compress?

It's just so much uglier with the artifacts.

Thanks in advance.

[alltherage]

Hmm now that I see this on a lower contrast monitor it's not as drastic a difference. This should be OK. I'd still like to know... if anyone has any tips.

[Rathji]

I can see the difference, but only because you pointed out the star. I don't think that anyone getting an email message would notice or care one way or another.