Vista - Windows Mail Stationery Stopped Working, Also Font colors and background colors...

Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:eOzLWevpHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

Ok, I do have HTML checked, and also have checked the box for "Send pctures
with messages". There is not (strictly speaking) a box for "INCLUDE"
pictures in the SEND tab. It's also strange that I am not able to choose a
color for the fonts. I can do the other text characteristics like bold and
italic, but no colors other than black.



"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@comcast.net> wrote in message
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make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.


mikeyhsd@comcast.net

"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:eOzLWevpHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window (with
the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the stationery
choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows Mail
Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

Ok, my font color/stationery/background color problem is now resolved.
Evidently:

-When one makes certain kinds of changes to things like 'Accessibility'
settings, the computer has to be restarted to make the changes effective.
-I had been playing with various Accessibility settings in IE7.
-I am thinking that changing those settings affected the compose fonts and
color settings in Windows Mail.
-When I changed those Accessibility settings back to normal, the compose
fonts did not return to normal; it required a subsequent restart to make the
changes (to return to normal) effective. I found hints about this at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178895. I had not found an answer as to
Windows Mail, and got to wondering whether a similar problem might have come
up with Outlook Express and thus found the reference that suggested
restarting. Well, I will be a little more careful in future.


"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:eslL7JwpHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Ok, I do have HTML checked, and also have checked the box for "Send
> pctures with messages". There is not (strictly speaking) a box for
> "INCLUDE" pictures in the SEND tab. It's also strange that I am not able
> to choose a color for the fonts. I can do the other text characteristics
> like bold and italic, but no colors other than black.
>
>
>
> "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:un2WLqvpHHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
> and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.
>
>
> mikeyhsd@comcast.net
>
> "John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:eOzLWevpHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
> message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
> fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
> appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
> the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
> Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window
> (with
> the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
> Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
> have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the
> stationery
> choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows
> Mail
> Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
> Thanks.

glad you found it.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:%23TqneAxpHHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Ok, my font color/stationery/background color problem is now resolved.
Evidently:

-When one makes certain kinds of changes to things like 'Accessibility'
settings, the computer has to be restarted to make the changes effective.
-I had been playing with various Accessibility settings in IE7.
-I am thinking that changing those settings affected the compose fonts and
color settings in Windows Mail.
-When I changed those Accessibility settings back to normal, the compose
fonts did not return to normal; it required a subsequent restart to make the
changes (to return to normal) effective. I found hints about this at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178895. I had not found an answer as to
Windows Mail, and got to wondering whether a similar problem might have come
up with Outlook Express and thus found the reference that suggested
restarting. Well, I will be a little more careful in future.


"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:eslL7JwpHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Ok, I do have HTML checked, and also have checked the box for "Send
> pctures with messages". There is not (strictly speaking) a box for
> "INCLUDE" pictures in the SEND tab. It's also strange that I am not able
> to choose a color for the fonts. I can do the other text characteristics
> like bold and italic, but no colors other than black.
>
>
>
> "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:un2WLqvpHHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> make sure under SEND tab you have selected HTML.
> and also under there the INCLUDE pictures option.
>
>
> mikeyhsd@comcast.net
>
> "John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:eOzLWevpHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a
> message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked
> fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices will
> appear. Tools/Options/Compose/Stationery does show a stationery choice in
> the box, however, none appears in the message. If I go to
> Stationery/Select, none of the choices will show in the Preview window
> (with
> the Show Preview box checked). In the Compose window, Format/Apply
> Stationery choices have no result. Also, Format/Background/Color choices
> have no result. Not sure what I may have done to cancel out the
> stationery
> choices. Curiouser and curiouser: no color fonts will work in Windows
> Mail
> Compose either. I have googled for this, but no joy yet. Any thoughts?
> Thanks.