Are you tired of the plain vanilla e-mail messages that you send every day? Do you have an exciting announcement, invitation, or other type of message that you want to enhance with a special design, formatted text, or a structured layout? Then you'll want to read this series of articles that shows you how to add personality and visual appeal to your Outlook 2000 e-mail by using background pictures and colors, stationery with special-event themes, animated graphics, and other features that are available when you use HTML as your message format.

Add a special design to an Outlook HTML message.

Add a background image or color to an Outlook HTML message, such as colorful balloons to a party invitation.

Add a still or animated picture to an Outlook HTML message instead of describing the image in words.

Apply HTML styles to an Outlook message to structure content with headings, subheadings, bulleted and numbered lists, and other formatted text.

Add horizontal lines to an HTML message in Outlook as a decorative element or to divide content into smaller sections that are easier to read.

 Note   Besides helping you make your e-mail more visually appealing, the HTML message format also lets you to turn any text into a hyperlink. For more information, see Turn text into a hyperlink in an Outlook HTML message.