You were probably using Microsoft Outlook, not Outlook Express, as neither
Outlook Express nor Windows Mail support HTML mail merges:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&cr=&sloc=&p=1
E-Mail Merge With Word 2007 and Vista's Windows Mail

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"One Ole Guy" <OneOleGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00A9E3A2-22DD-40B0-9C5E-7AC18B50CECB@microsoft.com...
>I was able to send an email message from Word 2000 to Outlook Express 6.0
>in
> HTML format.
>
> I cannot do that with Word 2007 and Windows Mail.
>
> Why?
>
> Is there something I can change to get Word 2007 and Windows Mail to send
> HTML mail merges?