Insert Google Drawings into Gmail body

Question

I am using Yet Another Mail Merge with Google Spreadsheets and Gmail and it works just as expected. But I am also trying to add a Google Drawings into the email body, so I would have more flexibility to have text areas (I have not found a way to enter a text area in Gmail).

The email merge works out of email draft. So I am trying to have a text area (where I can add the spreadsheet fields) on top of a image then export to email.

Once I copy to web clipboard and try to paste onto email body, the text box slides down the picture. And it looses some details.

Any suggestion?

In summary: have a text box on top of image inside the body of email. Text box to have spreadsheet details. Everything works OK in Google Drawings, but it does not seem to be able to export to Gmail.

Answer 1

It's possible using a table inside the google drawing. Everything will stay more or less in the position you want, with certain limitations. Drawing is not very versatile, but you can get your job done

Copy it into a draft message and from there you can do the mail merge that will seem to be part of the drawing. Seems simple, but it took some time...