How to Create your own Email Stationery

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• Outlook Express
• Outlook 2000
• Eudora
• Netscape

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Compose tab.
2. In the Stationery area, click Create New.

• To use stationery you see in a message from someone else, select the message, and then on the File menu, click Save as Stationery.
• A stationery file is an HTML file and can be edited in Outlook Express. In a new message window, click the View menu, click Source Edit, and then click the Source tab to make changes.
• When creating your stationery, try to keep the file size smaller than 10 KB. Pictures and other objects can make the file too large to be easily downloaded. (Check the size of your stationery inside the Stationery folder at: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Mail Format tab.
2. In the Send in this message format box, click HTML.
3. Click Stationery Picker, and then click New.
4. In the Enter a name for your new Stationery box, enter a name.
5. Under Choose how to create your Stationery, select whether to start from scratch or use an existing stationery.
6. To select a file to base your stationery on, type the path and file name in the Use this file as a template box or click Browse to select from a list.
7. Click Next.
8. Select the options you want to use. For Help on an option, click the question mark, and then click the option.

In the message
• click the File menu
• click Save Stationery
• enter a file name
• and then click OK.

1. Open the Stationery window: select Stationery from the Tools menu, or click the Stationery window's tab if it is the inactive window in a tabbed group.
2. Right-click anywhere inside the Stationery window and select New... from the context menu. Eudora opens a composition window to be used for stationery. The Send/Queue button is inactive in the window; thus the message cannot be sent or queued.
3. Put the text you want into the message body, fill in the headers as appropriate (subject, copies, etc.), and set the Toolbar.
4. Select Save As Stationery from the File menu to display the Save as Stationery dialog.
5. Enter a file name and click Save to save the stationery file. The file is saved to your Stationery folder.
6. Close the stationery message.

Here's how:
1. First start a new message. Open the Format menu and choose Page Colors and Properties. In the Page Properties dialog box, click the Colors and Background tab.
2. Click to use an image as the page background. Type the name of an image file. If you're not sure of the filename or file location, click Choose File to find the image file on your hard disk or network.
3. Background images are tiled and override background color.
4. Save these settings for new pages.
5. Click this option if you want your settings to apply to any new web pages you create.
6. To preview your settings, click Apply. To accept the changes, click OK.