Outlook Express Tips for Advanced Formatting of Emails

Edit every aspect of your messages in Outlook Express by turning to the HTML source. The options for advanced editing are endless there.

You don't have to drive the highlighter squeakily across your monitor to mark some text important in your emails. Here's how to mimic a highlighter and change the background color of select words, characters or paragraphs in Outlook Express.

Are you irritated by a background image you inserted in an email in Outlook Express showing up again at the right column? Here's how to prevent this, and how to make background pictures repeat only downwards or to the right.

Make your text flow nicely around an inline image in Outlook Express instead of typing just above and below the picture.

Spice your emails with background sound in one of those formats in Outlook Express.

It comes in colors! Here's how you can customize the line that indents quotations in the replies you compose in Outlook Express.

You reply to an email with fancy styling, background images and sound playing nonstop, and now your message has a background image (in the wrong place), fancy font styles (that don't fit) and sound (playing nonstop), too? Here's how to get rid of all the noise while retaining the original message in a reply in Outlook Express.

Do you want to place a logo at the very top of your email or make some stylized text touch reach the edges of a message? In Outlook Express, you can remove the top, bottom, right and left borders when composing an email.

Don't like it how Outlook Express underlines every email address you type in a message and changes the color, too? Here's how to make email addresses look plain and good in emails (while optionally retaining the mailto: link functionality).

Do you want Outlook Express to highlight the HTML source code while you compose a message or do you find that distracting? Here's how to turn source edit colorizing on or off.