The Digital Inspiration weblog has a step-by-step for adding HTML to Gmail messages. For those of you who have tried inserting an image or table ... (give me plain text, please!), ...

Although the images add a nice touch, you may not want them interfering with the natural flow of your text. A handy solution is to specify that text should go through the image in Apache ...

Annoyingly, however, Word continues to insert images as “in line with text”–the one setting you’ll probably never want to use unless you’re inserting an image into a table cell.