Procedure to send sms  

  1. Open up SMS Length Calculator: Fit Your SMS in the Character Limit (messente.com) 
  2. Paste in the sms message. 
  3. If the website says the encoding is “Unicode”, check in the green “Detailed view” table for dark green characters.  Eg long dashes, fancy apostrophes, fancy quotation marks.  
  4. Change these characters to plain text until the encoding becomes “7bit” 
  5. Remove any unnecessary double spaces, line feeds.   
  6. Once you are satisfied with the text message, copy all the text in the message box. 
  7. Open up a new email message in Outlook.  
  8. Click on the message body pane, press Control-A to highlight all contents of the current email (usually the signature).  *Don’t just use the mouse to highlight, this can leave unwanted Unicode characters behind. Use Control-A 
  9. Press the Delete key to clear out all contents of the message.  
  10. Paste in the prepared SMS message.  
  11. Select and copy the recipients from the contacts spreadsheet “SMS Address” column that you wish to send to, paste this to the “To” field of the email message. *If there are recipients from other tabs, you will need to repeat for each tab. 
  12. Leave subject blank.  
  13. Change the “From” field to admin@bama.net.au.  *if From field missing, click on Options menu, then click on “From” in the Show Fields section.   
  14. Click Send. Outlook will complain about having no subject, click on “Send Anyway”.  
  15. Go into the contacts spreadsheet and add new column to the far right. Type in the sent time.