Personalize letter head

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I'm not very god on images etc and I am having lots of problems putting
together a personnalized letter.

Ideally, I'd like the letter to have a picture going down the page on the
left and with a background paper.

I can get what I want with Microsoft Word but when I click 'send by email',
the problems start.

But picture is degraded and the background colour behaves strangely, only
appearing as you type.

I have also tried getting my letter paper into the correct Outlook folder
and there, the problems are worse.

I assume the format is htm and the letter appears in the folder but so does
another folder with the picture etc just like when you copy a Web page onto
your computer.

When I open up the letter in Outlook with Outlook (not transferring from
Word), the picture has disappeared and left a space and a red X).

Also, the hyerlinks no longer work once the letter has been sent and
received (I sent it to myself)

I've tried the Outlook group twice and the Word dogroup once without a
getting an answer.

In essence, I would like to create a letterhead that behaves like those in
Outlook but with the drawing going down the side

Thanks in advance

 

[Graham Mayor]

Many people to whom you try and send this formatted message will simply have
their e-mail applications configured to display only the text, so you are
probably wasting your time trying to do this. HTML can hide a multitude of
sins and in this age of virus transmitting idiots and junk mail are
unwelcome. If you want to send formatted documents to someone prepared to
receive them, send them as attachments, preferably zipped to reduce their
size, and in PDF format to retain layout.

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[Dave Neve]

Hi

At last a reply.

Can I ask then if I send an email with an Outlook html letterpaper, are you
saying that the message would only arrive on a plain background or not at
all as Outlook uses .html

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Recipients who are receptive to HTML messages will probably see your message
as you intended, but many recipients will have Outlook configured to receive
all messages as plain text.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you were to send it to me for example, I would not see the background -
only your text. Outlook can be (and here is) configured not to display
html - ever! The message would display only plain text. Send a message to my
web page link and I'll return it to demonstrate.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

As an example, in Outlook Express, used by quite
a few people for receiving email I would suspect,
there is a checkbox to receive all email in plain text
in Tools=>Options=>Read

If using Incredimail or some security products there
will be a setting for blocking 'linked' graphics
(i.e. when the graphic isn't sent as part of the email
but is instead linked to from the email to a website
when the person receiving it opens it to be read).

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Hi

At last a reply.

Can I ask then if I send an email with an Outlook html letterpaper, are you
saying that the message would only arrive on a plain background or not at
all as Outlook uses .html

Thanks >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
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[Dave Neve]

Hi

Even taking on board what you say, I'd still like to get my notepaper.

But here is the problem which I have come up against all day.

I have now created a html file which I would like to use.

When I put it into the 'Notepaper' ( or whatever it is in English) for
Outlook, a folder suddenly appears with it. In the folder, you have the
photo and other stuff that appears in the htlm file (seen this behaviour
before with htlm)

When I then locate my headed notepaper and load it in Outlook, it appears
but without the photo (which is no doubt left in the folder)

I 've tried getting round this my using a .mtl file instead but it is the
same.

I know there must be a workaround cos Outlook has headed notepaper with
images and they work fine

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dave,

The English name for the feature is likely 'Stationery'.
As Graham mentioned the HTML may or may not get 'received'.
The receiver has the configuration control, however your
text should get through in any case. So some folks will
appreciate your work, others will never know, but you'll
know you made the offer and the effort, so have fun with
it

You may want to ask the folks in the Outlook newsgroups
on tips for using Stationery and include the version of
MS Office Outlook you're using. When you use stationery
in the letter generally the outgoing mail program sends
along all of the necessary arts and parts with your email.


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Hi

Even taking on board what you say, I'd still like to get my notepaper.

But here is the problem which I have come up against all day.

I have now created a html file which I would like to use.

When I put it into the 'Notepaper' ( or whatever it is in English) for
Outlook, a folder suddenly appears with it. In the folder, you have the
photo and other stuff that appears in the htlm file (seen this behaviour
before with htlm)

When I then locate my headed notepaper and load it in Outlook, it appears
but without the photo (which is no doubt left in the folder)

I 've tried getting round this my using a .mtl file instead but it is the
same.

I know there must be a workaround cos Outlook has headed notepaper with
images and they work fine

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks>>