Direct Editing a stationery

Direct Editing a stationery file

This is a sample of what you would see if you made a stationery with the wizard for a full width screen graphic (like on my site) using the Comic Sans MS font (one that everyone has)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
BODY {
font-family: Comic Sans MS;
font-size: 12pt;
color: 800080;
margin-left: 165 px;
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: repeat;
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY background="angel.jpg">
</BODY>
</HTML>

As you can see there isn't really much to it

To use this again with a different graphic all I would need to do is change the name of the graphic I originally used. In this case - angel.jpg

To change it I can just highlight angel.jpg and type in the FULL PATH and the name of my new graphic.

IOW it will look something like
<BODY background="d:\stationery\cats\cat1.jpg">

The quotes MUST be there. Be very careful not to omit them. If you do, your stationery will not have a picture.

While you could go ahead and change the color of the font, and reset the margins here, it is really easiest to do that later when you are actually composing your message. That way you can see the effect of your changes.

Now simply hit file/save and close notepad.

Now to use it with the new graphic:
message
new message using
select stationery
and pick the same name from the list but this time either double click it or click once and then hit OK

Once you have the message with the stationery open in OE, it is easy to change the margins by going to the source tab at the bottom and changing the current margin (margin-left: 165 px;) to either a higher or lower number.
To see what the change does just flip back to the edit tab. Keep going back and forth between edit and source until you get what you want.

The font color in the sample used a hexadecimal code. You can just type in a different number or OE does understand a lot of color names too (such as: Pink, hotpink, silver, babyblue, skyblue, green, red, maroon and many many more - try some)
OR you could highlight all the text in the edit window, right click/font. Go to the little palette icon and click on it and choose a color that way.

Note
If you do not see three tabs at the bottom of your messages, it means you have never turned that option on. Just go (in the window with the message) to view/source edit and click to put a check mark there. You only need to do this once. All other HTML messages you write will now show the three tabs.

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