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Sharing Stationery which has been sent to you!
You may want to print this tutorial so it will be easier to follow.
Several of us like to share with our friends, stationery which has been sent to us. Perhaps this tutorial will help you with the proper procedure. Before you start, check to see that OE or WM is prepared to send stationery.
Open OE or WM to your inbox. At the top of your window, click on Tools. Click on options. Look for the Send tab. Click on it. Look in the sending list for the line which says, "Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent." Tick that little box. Click Apply, Ok and close the window.
Now go to Create Mail. That opens a new window. Click on Format. Then click on Rich Text. Then go to View and click on SourceEdit. Now close window. We are ready now to prepare our stationery.
Let’s start with a stat which we have received. You can save it to your documents folder. Or you can make a folder in your documents called Shares . Or You can make a folder for Shares on your desktop. Right-Click on your desktop in a blank area of the screen. Click on new. Then on folder. Give your folder a name (Shares) and then hit enter. It will appear on your desktop. You get the idea – somewhere make a folder in which to store your saved stationeries which you would like to share. Once you have set up your folder, it is time to save the stationery.
In OE or WM, highlight the stat you want to save and click on File, Save As…..
Once the save window is open,
find your new folder and click to open it. (Or whatever path takes
you to your new folder.) It will automatically be set up to save as
.eml.
(But if you are snagging in a Newsgroup, save it as
.nws. Then
proceed with the tutorial.)
Click on Save and close window.
Now we are ready to prepare the
stationery to share. Go to Start, Documents (My Documents) depending
on Vista or XP. Find the folder,
Shares or the stationery you just saved. 
Open that folder and double-click on the stationery you want to share. (Note the way this icon looks now. This tells you it is an .eml file.)
The stationery will open in Explorer.
At the top click on Forward. This will open the stationery in your email program.
(Very Important!!!) The first thing you will notice is some extra lines at the top of the stationery and a line across. Those were put in by Outlook Express or Windows Mail. Highlight all that information and delete. It will not harm the stationery.
Scroll down until you see the message area. Notice at the bottom, you should see your three tabs, Edit, Source, Preview. You are already in the edit area, so double-click in the stationery text area. You will see a text box appear.
Highlight the text and delete the text you don’t need. (Do not resend the message of the original stationery. That is not from you. If there are links you want to keep in (which is good etiquette) do not delete them. If the stationery does not contain the creator‘s name, you might add “Stationery created by ___________” after your new message. (Also good etiquette.))
Once you have your message typed in, you are ready to preview it just to make sure it operates correctly. If everything looks okay, then you are ready to send it.
Go up to the address line and put the recipient’s name in the correct place (To: ____). Change the Subject line to reflect your message. (Highlight and delete the information that is there.) You can also insert a tag or whatever other image you may want to use. After you finish you message, go to insert, picture and choose the image.
Now, send. Please note that if the stationery was originally made with special Meta filters or is an applet, it may not forward correctly. Or the other computer may not be able to view it. It is best to reuse simple stationery if possible until you determine whether they can view it. I hope this helps you and as always, please contact me if you need help with this activity.
Compiled by Dorothy Becknell, October, 2008
dottieb1@swbell.net