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Images

On this page, you will learn about the different ways to add an Image to your Mail Merge template

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Adding visible images to an email is possible with Mail Merge for Gmail. There are 3 possibilities:

  • the image is located on your computer, read

  • the image is located on your Google Drive, read

  • the image is available through a public URL, read

After being added to the template, you can still edit the image, see Edit an image.

the image size, orientation, and alignment can be edited, just click on the image to display the image toolbox.

Insert a local image

You can't directly add a local image to your email, because it has to be accessible online! You can use a hosting service, but we provide a convenient (and free) solution: host your images on Google Drive:

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Insert an image from Google Drive™

Insert a distant image

Optionally, you can add an alternative description and define the size of the image.

Edit an image

After being added to the template, the image's size, orientation, and alignment can be edited, just click on the image to display the image toolbox.

Set the permissions to "Anyone with the link" / "Viewer". Be careful, if you set "Editor", everyone will able to change your image which is probably not something you wish.

Then go to the next chapter :

To add a Google Drive-hosted image to your emails, from the editor click on the Google Drive image icon . This will open a modal, allowing you to choose your Google Drive image.

Before inserting the image in the template, Mail Merge will check permissions on the image. If you have an error message, read the to discover how to properly set permissions

If you want to change the Alternative Description or Image size, you can now directly from the template.

To add a remote picture to your emails, from the editor click on the image icon . This will open a modal, allowing you to insert your picture's "source" URL.

If you want to change the Alternative Description or Image size, you can now directly from the template.

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"Insert an image from Google Drive"
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edit the image
edit the image
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
Insert a local image
Insert an image from Google Drive™
Insert a distant image
Upload a file to Google Drive
Upload and set the right level of permissions on your image
Select "Insert image from Google Drive" and pick your picture
Click the on function "Insert/edit Image"
Insert your image URL in the source field
Just click on the image to open the image edition toolbox