custom stationary and fonts and word as editor?

[powder skier]

I have put my own stationary into ms outlook in the stationary file. The
problem arises when I start typing. The font is in new times roman. My
default font in ms word is verdana. The default font in ms outlook mail
format is verdana. When I have the 'Use Microsoft Word 2003 to edit email
messages' checked for some reason when I open a new message the default font
is new times roman. If I do not use word as my email aditor then the default
font is verdana. I would like to use word as an editor and have my new email
messages default font be verdana. Please help.

Thank you

 

[Tim]

I believe you need to edit the email template file. It's usually named
"email.dot".

Tim

 

[powder skier]

Hello Tim,

You are the king.

I open the file and changed the font to verdana 10 and saved and put it back
in the appropriate directory.then I selected word as my editor under the mail
tab under options and it works again. Thanks.

 

[Tim]

You're quite welcome...good to hear it worked for you!

Tim

 

[powder skier]

HI Tim,

Umm sadly it worked on my computer but when I tried it on another office
computer it didn't work. ???

 

[Tim]

Bummer...do you mean you found the email.dot file, edited it, and the
changes did not take affect? I had forgotten that Outlook 2003 really
doesn't use email.dot any more...so I'm not sure how it could have worked on
your PC. In Outlook 2003/2007 it uses Word's normal.dot. You could also try
editing normal.dot. If that doesn't work, rename normal.dot to something
else. Then when you edit a new message for the first time, a new normal.dot
file will be created.

Good luck.

Tim

 

[powder skier]

Hi Tim

Thanks again. My current normal.dot has verdana set as the default font
however I'll try renaming it and see what happpens.

Cheers,

 

[Tim]

I have seen conflicting opinions on the net regarding email.dot...so I'm not
sure what to believe. One thing though...make sure you are looking at the
normal.dot that your account is using. I believe sometimes there is a "main"
normal.dot as well as another for specific logins. I seem to remember
getting tripped up by that at one time. It seemed like the "special" one
wasn't created until I modified it. Renaming it should help clarify that. If
a new one isn't created in that folder, then you'll know that is not the
template file being used by Word/Outlook. But I am not an Office/Outlook
expert so I could be totally wrong. I've been on Vista and Office 2007 since
the beta days and am slowly forgetting the "old" days of XP and Office 2003.

Tim