OutLook Stationary
OutLook Stationary

Outlook Stationary is a lot like a web page

  1. Starts and ends with the HTML tag
  2. Has a HEAD part on top and a BODY part on bottom
  3. Can use Cascading Style Sheets (more later)
  4. Can use a GRAPHIC back ground (really cool)
  5. Can have background music (Very Impressive)
  6. Can use JavaScript
    (I am not doing that right now - kind of complicated)
  7. Can use Visual Basic Script (VBscript)
    (I am not doing that right now - Don't Know enough.)
  8. Used Plain test, also called ASCII text.
  9. You only need a simple text editor like "Notepad"
    (Which comes free with © "Windows")

Outlook Stationary can use a background sound of either a MIDI or WAVE (Maybe AU). Say the sound is mysong. Than a MIDI (for Musical Instrument Digital Interface if you really care to know), would be mysong.mid, the wave file mysong.wav and the AU form (by Sun Microsystems and used in JavaScript applets) would be mysong.au (I have not tested applets with Outlook)

Outlook Stationary can use a background graphic of either a JPG or GIF (Maybe PNG)

  • JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group - An International Standards Organization AKA "ISO") can have 16.7 million colors.
  • GIF © is CompuServe's standard, comes in GIF87a (Plain Vanilla) and Version 89a (Transparent background and Animation)
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphic) is a pretty new ISO standard which is supposed to be better than the others but I don't know much about it.

    A couple of important things about Outlook Stationary
    the files HAS TO be located in
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery
    You can use regedit to change the registry but why mess with what works.
    Windows will not let you read and edit the same file at the same time. Just use a different file, than go back into it after saving any changes.

    OK, I made up an Outlook Stationary sample in a ZIP file using the cut and paste example below. Just unzip it into the
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery
    Directory (also called Folder)

  • ZIP file of Hi Sweety

    Outlook Stationary has a lot to do with "Style Sheets" and while there are a lot of better ones on the web, I will point you to my humble Style sheet page.

  • Style Sheet

    That should be enough for now to get started on Outlook Stationary. There a lot of really good pages on it which I will add when I find them.
    For now, for the cut and paste the part between /* and */ is Style Sheets way of adding a remark field (but it has to be on one line)
    The Main things to change are:
    background-color: red ;
    margin-left: 250;
    src="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\Song001.mid" <BODY BACKGROUND="mypict.jpg" text="#99ff66" link="#ffff00" vlink="#00ffff" Alink="#cc0033">


    ----------------- CUT HERE -----------------
    <HTML> 
<HEAD> 
<TITLE> 
Name of Page or Stationary
</TITLE> 

<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> 
<!-- 
body {
background-color: red ; 
 /* Set Background Color for Stationery */
 /* Some Named colors but Always You can use #FF0000 (red in this case) */
background-repeat: repeat-y; 
 /* Left Border - Image repeats down the left side of the screen */ 
 /* repeat-x is across, repeat-y is up and down on the screen */ 
 /* Leave that out and the default is "Tiled" over the whole screen */ 
margin-left: 250; 
 /* Left Margin - Sets the Left margin in pixels (where you start to type) */ 
font-weight: Bold;
font-family: "New Times Roman,Arial"; 
 /* Default Font and mames with "White Space" need to ues Quotation Marks */ 
font-size: 12pt; 
 /* Default Font size in like type setters points */ 
 /* but with different size screens you never know */ 


 }
--> 
</STYLE> 
</HEAD> 

<BODY BACKGROUND="mypict.jpg" text="#99ff66" link="#ffff00" vlink="#00ffff" Alink="#cc0033"> 

</DIV> 

<BGSOUND balance=0 
src="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\Song001.mid" 
volume=0 loop='infinite'> 



</BODY> 
</HTML>

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