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The Quick & Easy
Way To Pick Custom Colors For Your Hex
Codes In Your HTML
Codes Using Outlook Express
If
you plan to do alot of color customizing
in your stationery and email, I recommend
you go and download an extremely handy
tool called Color Cop 5.3. I use it constantly
and it's so simple and quick to use!
Download
it here
(it's free!) and unzip it to a folder
in My Documents, then make yourself a
shortcut right away for ease of use as
this tool doesn't actually install on
your machine it just runs on demand when
you need it. I made my shortcut (just
right click on the Color Cop.exe Icon
and select "Create Shortcut")
and then dragged the shortcut icon to
my Quick launch Toolbar like you see below,
then it's always at my fingertips when
ever I need it and I don't have to go
clicking through folders to find it :o)
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Now
to use the Color Cop simply drag the eyedropper
to somewhere on your Preview Pane background
until you see it showing the color you
with to use as your table, border or whatever
hex code you're wanting to change, then
release the eyedropper and the Color Cop
will show you the hex code in it's little
window, the code automatically copies
to your clipboard so now all you have
to do is go to your Source pane and highlight
the hex numbers you want to change and
paste! So quick and easy you're going to
love it!! :o))
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Alrighty then, let's
take this whole process of making your
stationery color coordinated and learn
to Colorize your scrollbar too!!
Keep in mind only those who run Internet
Explorer 5.5 and up
will be able to see the colored scrollbars,
all other browsers ignore it and cannot
see it.
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This
is real quick and easy.....
(I'll have you learning html before
you know it *g*)
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Click and "Save Target As..."
this little snip of
coding and
your ready to add color to your scrollbars!
Open
the text file you downloaded from above
and Copy everything you see between
the <STYLE></STYLE> and go
to your Source Tab of your new message.....
Locate
the STYLE area in the html, it's very
near the top
and Paste the code in between the <STYLE>PASTE
CODE HERE</STYLE>
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Then
go to your Preview Pane and have a look.........
you will see the scrollbars colors, now
begin changing your hex codes picking them
with your ColorCop one at a time, checking
after each change to see what changed until
you become familiar with what all the attributes
mean. Here's a chart to help illustrate
the different attributes involved: |
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On a last note,
you've gone to all the time to customize
a wonderful piece of stationery, why not
save it to use again? Just click on File/Save
as/ name it and make sure the bottom drop
box says .eml files and you direct the
file to be saved somewhere handy. I have
made a folder for mine in My Documents
named "Ready To Mail Stationery",
next time you want to use this piece again
all you have to do is click to that folder
and click on the envelope icon of the
piece and it automatically pops open in
OE Ready To Use!! As an alternative (Outlook
Users too), you can add these attributes
to any piece of existing stationery in
your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Stationery folder but right clicking
on any html file and opening it in Notepad
and making the same changes, saving the
file each time, and then previewing it
by left clicking on it, it opens in IE
to preview :o)
I
hope you enjoy learning how to add these
customizations to your stationery, it
does add a special touch :o)
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