MS-Word document as body of email?

Question:

My question is how to I send the contents of a MS-Word document as the body of the email (not as an attachment)?

Answer:

You cannot. Most email clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.) are not capable of displaying MS-Word documents directly. (I’m not sure if Outlook does, I’ve never tested it…) Therefore, you would want to save your MS-Word as HTML and then send HTML email. Beware though: MS-Word is notorious for creating horrible HTML. Hopefully it will create HTML that can be displayed reasonably by most email clients.