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How to Highlight Text as with a Marker Pen in Windows Mail or Outlook Express

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 Windows Mail and Outlook Express.

How to Remove Margins From Emails You Compose in Windows Mail or 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 Windows Mail or Outlook Express, you can remove the top, bottom, right and left borders when composing an email.

How to Prevent Win Live Mail or Outlook Express from Underlining Email Addresses

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

How to Edit the HTML Source of a Message in Windows Mail or Outlook Express

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

Change the Color of the Quotation Line 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.

How to Write Left or Right of an Inline Image in Outlook Express

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

How to Prevent Background Image Repeating in Windows Mail or Outlook Express

Are you irritated by a background image you inserted in an email in Windows Mail or 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.

Source Code Highlighting in Windows Mail or Outlook Express's Mail Source Editor

Do you want Windows Mail or 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.

How to Remove Images and Sounds When Replying 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.