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Use Stationery In Your Windows Mail Messages (Vista)

Posted by on Nov 27, 2006 | 9 Comments

If you use Windows Mail to communicate with family and friends, you can use stationery to liven up your messages. When you add stationery to a message, a fancy background is placed behind the actual message. I personally feel that it is more of a fun thing to do and would generally not consider using it for business related messages.

Windows Mail includes different stationery that you can include in your messages. You can follow the simple steps listed below to use the stationery feature.

  1. Open Windows Mail.
  2. From the Tools menu, click Options.
  3. Click the Compose tab.
  4. Under Stationery, place a check beside Mail.
  5. Click the Select button. The available stationery appears.
  6. Highlight a stationery file to see a preview of it (if the Show Preview option is selected).
  7. Select the stationery you want to use and click OK.
  8. Click OK.

Now when you compose any messages, the stationery you selected will automatically be included.

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  • Bob Almond

    Argh! That’s stationery, which comes from a stationer, not stationary, as in not moving! So maybe I’m a pedant, and maybe it isn’t that important, but it matters to me, even if everyone else thinks I’m strange.

    More important – I don’t really like getting html mail with tacky stationery and (worst of all) little animated borders and stuff – and I’m very likely to delete it as spam. On the whole, my preference is for plain text. If it was from someone I knew well, I might make an exception. Many businesses don’t allow html mail in at all – so if you do want to use it, please be sparing and discriminating.

  • Rod

    Sorry, but bad spelling is a pet peeve of mine. It’s stationery, not stationary……unless you wanted us to stay very still while composing our emails. heheh

  • Steve

    Do you proof your work? Stationery is improperly and properly spelled.

  • Nina

    Er, that’s “stationEry” with an “e,” not an “a”….!

  • Bob Almond

    Hey Diana – we all sound so crabby! Keep writing the stuff, we appreciate it, even if we do leap on the little slip-ups.

  • conny

    How do I delete stationery in vista ???

  • http://n/a ron

    I don’t even understand how to use Windows mail. Try for a long time to understand it. But seem to hard. But it also seems that thet ( or whoever) is trying to push it on people. I don’t understand POP, SMTP or what ever they call it.

  • Alan

    I was able to create stationery, but now I need to know how to enter text, I have a title as a board member and need to show that as a footer
    line 1. name
    line 2. title
    line 3. phone numbers

    oh yeah I have a long title 23 characters.

  • Hilda Howarth

    I used to make moving stationery on Outlook express and it appears that this cannot be done on Windows Mail (live or otherwise). Such a lot of fun has gone out of sending mail now. Why can’t outlook express be brought back again to be used on Vista. Feel like going back to the Royal Mail system again now !!