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Adding Graphic Images to Form Letters and Email Blasts

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Unlike plain text, adding graphics and color to your form letters, newsletters and email adds impact to your content. In the form letter functions of Theatre Manager, you can easily add graphics. These can range from your logo to photographs to clipart. There are 3 different methods to add graphics to a form letter:

  • Drag and Drop the image into a form letter.
  • The menu option Edit >> Paste From File.

Theatre Manager expects images to use the RGB colour palette. If you have an image that is based on another colour palette like CMYK, the image may appear black and white and may not work as intended. This is to assist making sure that colours ent ot email clients or web browsers are as web-safe as possible.

You can download the Cheatsheet (1-2 pages) of adding a Graphic to a Form Letter.

Drag and Drop

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To Drag and Drop a graphic into your form letter, you perform the following steps:

  1. Open the letter you want to add the graphic to.
  2. Highlight the existing Graphic, if there is no graphic, place your cursor at the beginning of the line for your insertion point and now drag and drop the graphic into place.
  3. A confirmation dialog opens.
  4. Click the Yes button.
  5. Your graphic has been added to the form letter using drag and drop.

Paste from File

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To add a graphic to a Form Letter by using paste from file, you perform the following steps:

  1. Open the letter you want to add the graphic to.
  2. With your cursor, locate the beginning of the line where you would like the graphic to appear.
  3. Chose the Main Menu item Edit >> Paste from File.
  4. The file dialog for your operating system opens.
  5. Find the graphic file you want to insert into your form letter. You may have to use the drop down selection to choose the appropriate file type.
  6. Click the Open button.
  7. The graphic is pasted into the Form Letter.