Adding to Outlook's Stationery

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Note: Before using this feature of High Impact eMail, you should have a good understanding of what stationery is in Outlook or Outlook Express. Consult with the help systems for those programs and experiment with stationery until you are comfortable with how it works. You should also understand how signatures work.

One of High Impact eMail's most interesting features is that it can create custom stationery for Outlook and Outlook Express that you can use every time you compose an e-mail message. It's very easy to select one of the Stationery templates and choose to add it to Outlook or Outlook Express as Stationery. You can even choose to make it your default.

To use one of High Impact eMail's templates as stationery in Outlook or Outlook Express, click on the Stationery folder in the High Impact eMail browser and select the template of your choice. Then select ToolsAdd to Outlook Stationery... or Add to Outlook Express Stationery...  

OR

Right-click and from the popup menu, select the Add to Outlook Stationery.... or Add to Outlook Express Stationery... option as illustrated below.

It's important to note that these options are only available to templates in the Stationery folder (and its subfolders). High Impact eMail Stationery templates are unlike the other templates in that they are dual-purpose: they can be used a) to send individual e-mails and b) as stationery in Outlook or Outlook Express.

If you are using Outlook, the dialog box below informs you that the selected template will be available for use as Outlook stationery. Check the check box if you want to make it your default stationery, then click OK. 



If you are using Outlook Express, you will see the dialog box below.


For best results, you should disable the signature feature of Outlook or Outlook Express, as it will probably conflict with the stationery template.

Note: It is possible to select multiple templates to be added to stationery. If you have selected multiple templates and check the "Make this the default" check box, High Impact eMail will designate the last selected template as the default stationery.

If you have not yet specified logo, portrait, and signature image files, then you will probably see one or more AutoComplete dialogs like the one below, depending on the template you selected.

If you want to use a template that references one or more of these images, it is important to have prepared the images and uploaded them to the web before trying to add a High Impact eMail template to Outlook or Outlook Express's stationery.

When you add a template to Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, the program copies the template with the current Business Card details to the stationery folder. If you later change your Business Card Information, these changes will not be reflected in the templates that have already been added to Outlook or Outlook Express's stationery folder. To incorporate your recent Business Card Information these templates will have to be re-added to the Stationery folder.

Once you have added a template to Outlook or Outlook Express's stationery, you can select it as follows:

Selecting Stationery from within Outlook
Click Actions | New Mail Message Using... and select stationery with which to send e-mail.

Selecting Stationery from within Outlook Express
Click Message | New Message Using and select the stationery with which to send e-mail.