Microsoft Outlook letterhead

[Peter Henry]

As it says on the box.

I am not techy at all I am afraid but have been told that one can use a banner logo and contact info to make a set letterhead for emails. I have been told this is relatively easy to do using the menu of the outlook programme? :?

Is there any kind soul who could perhaps via pm give me an idiots step by step guide to achieving this?

I will love you very much for always if you can help! :wink:

Thx,

Peter

[TSM]

There is a stationary option in the 'Tools' of outlook. Prerequsite is that the email is HTML. You can import HTML templates etc.

[timwilky]

For the life of me I can't get my head round why people want to send HTML based email. Great if your recipients mail client supports it. but if it don't, what was supposed to be a fancy well structured mail looks like a dogs dinner and if attempting to cold sell has gone in the trash before it has even been read.

My company uses Notes with about 50,000 mail boxes, it don't handle HTML at all well. and I despair when I receive them.

At home I only receive text, because I am fed up of **** embedded in graphic images attempting to be text to get round my spam filters etc.

Peter, whilst it might sound a good idea to mail looking like your business letter head, in practice I think it is a poor solution to a well constructed mail.

[TSM]

For the life of me I can't get my head round why people want to send HTML based email. Great if your recipients mail client supports it. but if it don't, what was supposed to be a fancy well structured mail looks like a dogs dinner and if attempting to cold sell has gone in the trash before it has even been read.

My company uses Notes with about 50,000 mail boxes, it don't handle HTML at all well. and I despair when I receive them.

At home I only receive text, because I am fed up of sh*t embedded in graphic images attempting to be text to get round my spam filters etc.

Peter, whilst it might sound a good idea to mail looking like your business letter head, in practice I think it is a poor solution to a well constructed mail.

Yep but outlook sends two copies of the message within the SMTP session. If you browser only support plain text it should only show the text and not html.

The realy arsy format is the RTF in Outlook as its only used by their program properly.

[shao]

Have to agree with timwilky, if you value and respect your customers, dont make them suffer html email.

[fizzwheel]

I have to agree with Tim. It irritates the hell out of me when I get embedded HTML in an email. I tend to just delete the emails with that kind of stuff in so they dont get read.

Best to keep it simple and not bother with all the fancy stuff IMHO

[Peter Henry]

Hmm...seems what appeared a good idea is perhaps pants! I was intending to lend more credability to my emails rather than become a nuisance to customers.

Tim I do not do cold calling mate! I only respond to enquiries made. I would not subject otyhers to things that p*ss me off.

Pegasus thx for your input mate. :wink:

[Baph]

A good text footer (inc position within company, company name, address, contact numbers etc etc) beats a HTML header hands down.

Adds credability, doesn't p**s people off.

[timwilky]

Have to agree with Baph, but also add a confidentiality statement.

If you want to make things really professional, To include quotations, terms and conditions prices, correctly formatted, including letter head etc. By all means Word Process it and print it to PDF. Then attach the PDF to the mail.

That way, your correspondents, can print out their document, unable to amend it, but correctly formatted.

My brother does this all the time, for his garage conversion company, also includes sketches (never drawings) and images.