Windows Mail Stationery Stopped Working, Also Font colors and background colors...

[John Hanley]

Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

 

[mikeyhsd]

make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.



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Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

 

[John Hanley]

Ok, I do have HTML checked, and also have checked the box for "Send pctures
with messages". There is not (strictly speaking) a box for "INCLUDE"
pictures in the SEND tab. It's also strange that I am not able to choose a
color for the fonts. I can do the other text characteristics like bold and
italic, but no colors other than black.



make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.


(e-mail address removed)

Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

 

[John Hanley]

Ok, my font color/stationery/background color problem is now resolved.
Evidently:

-When one makes certain kinds of changes to things like 'Accessibility'
settings, the computer has to be restarted to make the changes effective.
-I had been playing with various Accessibility settings in IE7.
-I am thinking that changing those settings affected the compose fonts and
color settings in Windows Mail.
-When I changed those Accessibility settings back to normal, the compose
fonts did not return to normal; it required a subsequent restart to make the
changes (to return to normal) effective. I found hints about this at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178895. I had not found an answer as to
Windows Mail, and got to wondering whether a similar problem might have come
up with Outlook Express and thus found the reference that suggested
restarting. Well, I will be a little more careful in future.

 

[mikeyhsd]

glad you found it.



(e-mail address removed)



Ok, my font color/stationery/background color problem is now resolved.
Evidently:

-When one makes certain kinds of changes to things like 'Accessibility'
settings, the computer has to be restarted to make the changes effective.
-I had been playing with various Accessibility settings in IE7.
-I am thinking that changing those settings affected the compose fonts and
color settings in Windows Mail.
-When I changed those Accessibility settings back to normal, the compose
fonts did not return to normal; it required a subsequent restart to make the
changes (to return to normal) effective. I found hints about this at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178895. I had not found an answer as to
Windows Mail, and got to wondering whether a similar problem might have come
up with Outlook Express and thus found the reference that suggested
restarting. Well, I will be a little more careful in future.