Using Outlook Express Stationery Wizard

You can use the Outlook Express Stationery Wizard to make your own stationery if you like. I will show you how you are able to do this with a picture you may have made in a paint program or from a photo you have scanned. First of all right click on the picture below and, Save As: flowerimage, to your desktop. This picture will be the one we use for this lesson.

1) Open up your Outlook Express E-Mail program. Left click on New Message Using. Now go down the drop down list and left click on Select Stationery.

2) Go down to the bottom and left click on Create New...

3) The Stationery Setup Wizard screen will pop up and it will say, Welcome to the stationery wizard. On this screen go down and left click on Next.

4) On this screen you will be making the background. Make sure you have a check mark in the Picture box. Left click on the Browse button and go to your desktop and left click on the flowerimage you downloaded to there. Position: should be Top, Left. For Tile: you should have Vertically. A check mark should be in the Color box and we are going to select Black as the background color. When you are done doing all this left click on Next at the bottom of the screen.

5) Here is where we will be picking out the font type we want to have our stationery to use. Left click on the carrot at the end and set your Font: Abadi MT Condensed. Then set the Size:18, Color: White. Make sure you have a checkmark in the Bold box and also on the Italic box. When you have this all done left click on Next.

6) This screen allows us to set the margins. Set the Left Margin: 200 pixels and the Top Margin: 20 pixels. When done, left click on Next.

7) We have completed making our stationery from a picture we used. This is where you will name your stationery and save it to your stationery folder. We will name this stationery, moon flower. So type in moom flower where it says Name: When you are done left click on Finish.

8) A Select Stationery screen will pop up and where it shows the File name: moon flower.htm should be showing there. All thats left to do is left click OK. You are done and have made a new stationery to use. It is saved in your stationery folder. Now E-Mail me a message on your new stationery!!!