How to Install Stationery in a Stand Alone Outlook 2007 Program

[RonRoo]

So frustrated. I bought Outlook 2007 about 6 months ago and after using it a
while tried to apply themes and stationery. I went to the internet and
discovered on one of Microsoft's pages that you needed Word 2007 to use that
feature. Well, I bought Home and Student and did just that.
Themes/stationery STILL did not work. I then explored the internet further
to find that you have to buy Outlook and Word from the same Office Suite.
What a disappointment and a waste.

I've tried to create some stationery using "fill colors" and applying
backgrounds but am having trouble developing stationery with borders. I save
them as templates. If I apply a border, when you reply or forward the
message, the margins don't align as you have them set in the original
template. Thus, the text appears over the border.

Has anyone out there used the "Design Form" feature and gotten better
results? I've also read some suggestions where they refer to inserting html
files as text but I doubt I have the tools to do that. I'm not a programmer
so I'm totally lost with that concept.

Many thanks for any help or insight you can offer?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Designing a form is not the way.
You can still create and apply themes via the Options tab while composing a
message. This is of course not the same as a real theme.
You can also create a design that you want and then save the message as an
oft-file which you can reuse.
When you design the template via an external HTML editor, then you can
import it via;
Insert-> File-> select the html-file-> press the little down arrow on the
Insert button and choose Insert as Text.

 

[RonRoo]

Thank you!
--
RonRoo

Designing a form is not the way.
You can still create and apply themes via the Options tab while composing a
message. This is of course not the same as a real theme.
You can also create a design that you want and then save the message as an
oft-file which you can reuse.
When you design the template via an external HTML editor, then you can
import it via;
Insert-> File-> select the html-file-> press the little down arrow on the
Insert button and choose Insert as Text.