Hi Rae,
This is a copy of an answer I sent someone else previously and explains about "stationery" - the Background page colour / image, and adding graphics etc to it ......
What you need to do is set up an html page that contains your logo and set the whole page as the background - like this - I'll try and explain ...
Outlook Stationery is stored in C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Stationery.
I have prepared the following for you to see how it all works ..
Open a new text document ( In Notepad or Wordpad ) then copy & paste the following paragraph of html into it, then save it as Pprune.htm - ( save it in the C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Stationery folder ).
<html><head><title id="ridTitle">Pprune</title> <style><!-- body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-style: bold; color: #ff6633; margin-top: 25px; margin-left: 25px; } --></style> </head> <body id="ridBody" background="Clear Day Bkgrd.jpg"><left><img id="ridImg" src=Pprune.gif align=bottom></left> <p></p> <b><SPAN id="_AthCaret"></SPAN></b> <p></p> </body> </html>
You would then be able to select this new stationery page from within Outlook by clicking Tools / Options / Mail Format tab / Stationery Picker, and scrolling down the list to "Pprune".
Click on this then click "OK" and "Apply".
All new messages would then start with this page of stationery.
( This won't work though unless you also have the Pprune.gif image in your Stationery folder.
Right click the Pprune logo below then copy and paste it to the Stationery Folder - rename it as just Pprune.gif)
http://www.pprune.com/forums/images/ppforumslogo.gif
By looking at the HTML you copied and pasted you can see that the actual background is made of an image called "Clear Day Bkgrd.jpg", and the Pprune logo is a separate image called Pprune.jpg which is positioned to the top left of the page. This has the effect that the light blue cloudy background ( Clear Day Bkgrd.jpg) is an image that is tiled down the page, and because it has no defined edges you don't really notice the tiling effect - it appears as one continuous image ) - The Pprune logo stays where it is
If you put a copy of your own logo image into the Stationery folder, you can then change the above html - where it specifies Pprune.gif - to your own logo file name.
You will also have to rename the part where it says
<title id="ridTitle">Pprune</title>
to <title id="ridTitle">My Logo</title> ( or choose your own name - this is how it will appear in the Stationery List within Outlook ).
Save the altered file as mylogo.htm or whatever you want and you will then be able to select My Logo as the default stationery from the Stationery Picker as above.
If you don't want the cloudy background, and would prefer a blank background, then change the html where it says background="Clear Day Bkgrd.jpg" to background="Blank Bkgrd.gif" - Note that it is only the background image that requires parentheses ( " " ) around it, not your logo file - The file Blank Bkgrd.gif should already be present in your Stationery folder ).
If you want to position your logo in the center of the page, or on the right, change the html where it says
<left><img id="ridImg" src=Pprune.gif align=bottom></left>
to read
<center><img id="ridImg" src=Pprune.gif align=bottom></center>
or
<right><img id="ridImg" src=Pprune.gif align=bottom></right>
as required - don't forget to SAVE the file after making the changes.
Finally, in case you don't know how to open an html file to make changes ( double clicking on it opens the file in your Internet browser ) just open it and then from the file menu click "View" and "Source" - it will then open up in a text editor.
Sorry this is a bit long winded but hopefully it has explained exactly what to do and others may also get the benefit.
Coconutty
edited for minor typo.