Pre-formatted e-mail Bobcat403 <Bobcat403.390d630[ at ]outlookbanter.com> 12/19/2008 3:17:21 AM I have been using EUDORA for 10-15 years and am now in the process of converting to Outlook. One of the key things I have in EUDORA is pre-formatted e-mail forms. These are set up with a subject line, cc line addresses and a body of text. All I do is insert the "To" line and a salutation and send it. I use them for prospect referrals (I supervise a number of units in three states of a youth program - the US Naval Sea Cadet Corps, and receive prospects daily that I must refer to the closest unit). I have to have one of these for each unit in order to forward contact information to the prospect. My problem is that I have found no way to do this in Outlook. This is why I have not converted fully and hang on to EUDORA - I must have this process, so how do I do it in Outlook? There is no answer in "Stationery" as those are all blank and creating a new one does not allow me to enter any text. (Also, I hate using Stationery because it always gives a double space line when using the "return" key on a short line when I often only want a single space line - and there is no way I've found to change that!) Thanks John -- Bobcat403

Re: Pre-formatted e-mail VanguardLH <V[ at ]nguard.LH> 12/19/2008 4:29:55 AM Bobcat403 wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have been using EUDORA for 10-15 years and am now in the process of > converting to Outlook. One of the key things I have in EUDORA is > pre-formatted e-mail forms. These are set up with a subject line, cc > line addresses and a body of text. All I do is insert the "To" line and > a salutation and send it. I use them for prospect referrals (I supervise > a number of units in three states of a youth program - the US Naval Sea > Cadet Corps, and receive prospects daily that I must refer to the > closest unit). I have to have one of these for each unit in order to > forward contact information to the prospect. > > My problem is that I have found no way to do this in Outlook. This is > why I have not converted fully and hang on to EUDORA - I must have this > process, so how do I do it in Outlook? > > There is no answer in "Stationery" as those are all blank and creating > a new one does not allow me to enter any text. (Also, I hate using > Stationery because it always gives a double space line when using the > "return" key on a short line when I often only want a single space line > - and there is no way I've found to change that!) > > Thanks > > John In Outlook, hit F1 and search help on "templates". You compose the e-mail that you want to repeat and then save it as a template. Then you open the template when you want to send one like it.

Re: Pre-formatted e-mail Alias <iamaliasNUKE[ at ]gmailTHIS.com> 12/19/2008 1:10:11 PM Bobcat403 wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have been using EUDORA for 10-15 years and am now in the process of > converting to Outlook. One of the key things I have in EUDORA is > pre-formatted e-mail forms. These are set up with a subject line, cc > line addresses and a body of text. All I do is insert the "To" line and > a salutation and send it. I use them for prospect referrals (I supervise > a number of units in three states of a youth program - the US Naval Sea > Cadet Corps, and receive prospects daily that I must refer to the > closest unit). I have to have one of these for each unit in order to > forward contact information to the prospect. > > My problem is that I have found no way to do this in Outlook. This is > why I have not converted fully and hang on to EUDORA - I must have this > process, so how do I do it in Outlook? > > There is no answer in "Stationery" as those are all blank and creating > a new one does not allow me to enter any text. (Also, I hate using > Stationery because it always gives a double space line when using the > "return" key on a short line when I often only want a single space line > - and there is no way I've found to change that!) > > Thanks > > John > > > > You can use the signature feature for that. You need to have one of the sigs assigned to your account and you can right click on the sig and change it to any of the other sigs you have. Alias

Re: Pre-formatted e-mail "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" <tillman1952[ at ]yahoo.com> 12/19/2008 1:23:03 PM "Bobcat403" <Bobcat403.390d630[ at ]outlookbanter.com> wrote in message news:Bobcat403.390d630[ at ]outlookbanter.com... [Quoted Text] > I have been using EUDORA for 10-15 years and am now in the process of > converting to Outlook. One of the key things I have in EUDORA is > pre-formatted e-mail forms. These are set up with a subject line, cc > line addresses and a body of text. All I do is insert the "To" line and > a salutation and send it. I use them for prospect referrals (I supervise > a number of units in three states of a youth program - the US Naval Sea > Cadet Corps, and receive prospects daily that I must refer to the > closest unit). I have to have one of these for each unit in order to > forward contact information to the prospect. > > My problem is that I have found no way to do this in Outlook. In addition to templates as VanguardLH suggests, you can also use Draft messages. Compose your message with as much informaiton as you wish and save it to the Drafts folder. When you want to send it out, select the message, click Forward and fill in the extra information you're adding. Click Send. If you open the draft and send instead of Forward, it will be removed from the Drafts folder. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Re: Pre-formatted e-mail Bobcat403 <Bobcat403.3a150f0[ at ]outlookbanter.com> 12/31/2008 4:13:10 PM Thanks for all your replies. I used Vangard's suggestion and it works great for me, though I see some future usefulness in the other two methods as well. John 'Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook Wrote: > ;282000']"Bobcat403" Bobcat403.390d630[ at ]outlookbanter.com wrote in > message [Quoted Text] > news:Bobcat403.390d630[ at ]outlookbanter.com... > - > I have been using EUDORA for 10-15 years and am now in the process of > converting to Outlook. One of the key things I have in EUDORA is > pre-formatted e-mail forms. These are set up with a subject line, cc > line addresses and a body of text. All I do is insert the "To" line > and > a salutation and send it. I use them for prospect referrals (I > supervise > a number of units in three states of a youth program - the US Naval > Sea > Cadet Corps, and receive prospects daily that I must refer to the > closest unit). I have to have one of these for each unit in order to > forward contact information to the prospect. > > My problem is that I have found no way to do this in Outlook.- > > In addition to templates as VanguardLH suggests, you can also use Draft > > messages. Compose your message with as much informaiton as you wish > and > save it to the Drafts folder. When you want to send it out, select the > > message, click Forward and fill in the extra information you're adding. > > Click Send. If you open the draft and send instead of Forward, it will > be > removed from the Drafts folder. > -- > Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] -- Bobcat403