Please -- we beg of you -- for the sanity of recipients and server administrators, as well as your own, don't use fancy formatting or HTML in your email unless absolutely necessary. If you have complex information to convey, attach a file rather than re-create it within an email message -- especially if you're unsure of the settings of the recipient's email client.
Outlook automatically resizes this Excel chart when you paste it into an RTF-format email message, but it keeps it at the original size when you paste it into an HTML-format message.
We all have to create those monolithic messages now and then, so we may as well do it right. By 'right', we mean inserting the content in a way that helps the recipient best use the information. Pasting an Excel chart into an email message in Rich Text Format, for instance, yields different results than pasting it into an HTML-format message. Pasting it as a Microsoft Excel Chart object will let the reader change the chart, but it will also make the message larger and slower to load. Proper cutting and pasting is most important when working with table data: always paste it as HTML, RTF or a document object if you want the recipient to be able to copy and use that data. Select Rich Text or HTML from the Format menu within an email message.
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