How to make font, theme, color and signature *stick*

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Chad Harris

I'm using MOS 2003.

I'm having trouble making three types of settings "stick" after I set them
that I know you shouldn't have to set every time you send or return a
message.

I want to format this way. It's easy to do, but then when I send a new
message, I'm back to default and I have to do this all over again. How can
I do it once and make it stick?

In the message:

1) Format>Theme>Cascade.
2) Font Color: White and Font: Century Gothic
3) I want to set a signature to a font and a white color and make this
stick also. My signature was sticking, but now none of these show up every
time I try to click on New>Mail Message

The white color or a light color is necessary because of the deep blue
background of cascade.

TIA,

Chad Harris
 
I can make all of these but the theme stick. Why wouldn't their be an apply
to the theme?

Chad Harris

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Mervet--

I thought it would take a setting from the main window to control but I just
can't find one. I know you can assign a signature to an account from
Tools>Options>Mail Format but I can't find anywhere to click to get a
theme's list. I'd appreciate it if you can show me where I do this from the
Main Window--I've been to every option I see on the menu; so I must be
missing it somehow.

Thanks,

Chad Harris

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My outlook changes under tools/options/mail format. This menu has a window broken into thirds. top is message format, middle is stationary and fonts and bottom is signatures. I use Outlook 2003 so I would assume yours is the same. If not, I unfortunately don't have an answer. I would send along a picture of the screen if I could attach or paste but this page won't let me. Good luck. Also...I am using build 11.5608.5703 if that helps.
 
Mervet--

You were getting me to the right place--I just didn't realize it partly
because like their adaptive or animated menus that move around, Microsoft
has switched terms when you use Wordmail or Word as your message editor.

One of the problems I think is the terms stationery and themes. They are
much the same thing, but themes offers more choices. Microsoft uses them
interchangably on the Wordmail dialogue box, and that was confusing me--to
get them to stick, and to in fact get the choices that Themes offers, you
have to use the *Word* editor for messages. They are even using the terms
interchangably on their dialogue box. If you set themes from Format in the
Word editor, it won't stick.

To make the settings stick, you have to go to Options on the Word email
editor for messages or what some people call Wordmail. If you go to Tools
on Outlook, you're not going to get themes, just stationary. If you go to
Format, you'll get themes but it's not going to stick. So you *on the word
email message editor,* you go to Tools>Options>Email Options>Personal
Stationery Tab>(and watch them slip in the term Theme) and set Theme and
Font from there.

Here's what I think I've learned, and now I see what you were trying to show
me.

On the "Main" Outlook toolbar from Tools, you can go to Tools>Options>Mail
Format tab of course and set stationary and fonts. And these settings as
well as signature will *stick* or be deployed message to message *as long
as* you're not using Word as your message editor. Also, correct me if I'm
wrong, to get more choices or to deploy *themes,* and really you're getting
more "stationery choices" in effect with *themes*, you have to make Word
your message editor--I understand it's the Outlook 03 default, but you could
choose not to.

On the Word as message editor, you have the Format menu where Theme and
Font are listed. But if you choose them from there, you won't see it the
next time you create a message. I was looking for a way to apply it to all
my future messages or replies. The way to do that is to accept that
Microsoft has switched terms on you. On the Word *message editor toolbar,*
you go to Tools > Options > General > Email Options *Button*>Personal
Stationery *Tab*>(and they acknowledge their ambiguity) because then you get
MS to say what they really mean *Theme OR Stationery* for email
message>Theme button. You can make Fonts stick there as well using the pull
down to select when to apply the font and the button at the bottom of the
dialogue box for font.

Thanks much,

Chad Harris



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I'm using MOS 2003.

I'm having trouble making three types of settings "stick" after I set them
that I know you shouldn't have to set every time you send or return a
message.

I want to format this way. It's easy to do, but then when I send a new
message, I'm back to default and I have to do this all over again. How can
I do it once and make it stick?

In the message:

1) Format>Theme>Cascade.
2) Font Color: White and Font: Century Gothic
3) I want to set a signature to a font and a white color and make this
stick also. My signature was sticking, but now none of these show up every
time I try to click on New>Mail Message

The white color or a light color is necessary because of the deep blue
background of cascade.
Click to expand...
You are trying to format ALL messages in HTML. If you receive a message in
plain text, you cannot respond in HTML, so what you are trying to do is not
going to work.
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<<<SgtRich>>>

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