Replying to emails with your own stationery

Banzai_Joe · 10 Jul 2007 at 10:35

Folks,

as the title suggests, can i?

Basically, like gazillions of other people, when we create a new email in outlook 2003 it opens up a mail message window with our personal stationery already set up.

I've been asked if its possible that if we 'reply' to a mail in our inbox, for it to then populate the reply part of the message with our set stationery?
Apparently one of our employees had it setup at her old company, but she doesn't know how it was done.
I can't see anything in the preferences, so would appreciate any input offered.
Thanks
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ns400r · 10 Jul 2007 at 11:58

If the mail recieved is in plain text then you can't reply with stationary unles you change it to HTML.

Banzai_Joe · 10 Jul 2007 at 16:53

They are very often html, with the senders own stationery attached to the original email. I still cannot see any options that allow me to reply with mine though.

rickyt · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:57

I made many myself years ago ,but using Outlook Express .Surely ,you must be able to use Outlook too ? . Anyway you can possibly create one in Outlook Express and import into Outlook , they are only html files and kept in a folder in a folder called stationary . I used to have animated gifs , and background pictures on mine and they looked quite good .
Anyway , have a try out in Outlook Express . Goto MESSAGE -NEW MESSAGE USING- SELECT STATIONARY - CREATE NEW . get some pictures etc and put them in a folder on your C: drive and import them from there .Once made you can actually save them [the finished html files ]and put them on another PC in you want .

Banzai_Joe · 11 Jul 2007 at 12:02

I think you misunderstood me rickyt, unless i didn't explain myself very well

The problem is, you can add a signature to a reply, but not stationery.
I'd have no problem recreating our stationery as a sig, but because the email body copy sits 'within' the sig, i.e. company logo at top, then message text, then company details at bottom, you don't have the usual contextual menu options on the body copy as you would have if it were stationery, so we can't spell check etc.

If you create a new mail, then click 'options' > E-mail signature...
You can select a sig to use when replying to emails. But you cannot select stationery.

See my dilemma?

rickyt · 11 Jul 2007 at 17:06

Yes ,sorry I missread your post . Seems quite an advanced sort of thing . Hope you get it sorted .