How to Add a Ticker to My MS Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2000 is personal productivity and email program. Tickers are animated images located within emails. Though individuals and businesses may prefer to use recent stock market images as tickers for their emails, more popular tickers include countdowns to birthdays, childbirth due dates and other special events. People also like to include tickers that represent their personal philosophy or aesthetic style. Including a ticker into your MS Outlook 2000 program is similar to adding a regular signature to your email.
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Instructions
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Click "Start," "Programs" and select "Notepad." Type the following into Notepad:
<html>
<head>
<title>XXX</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="YYY>
<img border="0"
Replace "XXX" with the name of the website where your ticker is housed or the title of your ticker. Replace "YYY" with the URL address where your ticker is located. Be sure to include http://www., as appropriate.
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Select "File." Select "Save As." Type in the name you want to name your ticker program. Save this file as an .html file.
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Close Notepad. Click the small "X" located in Notepad's upper right-hand screen.
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Click the "Start" button located in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. Click on the Microsoft Outlook icon located in your Start menu. The icon will be a gold envelope labeled "E-mail Microsoft Office Outlook."
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Select "Tools" in Outlook, located fourth from the left on the main Outlook top menu bar. Select "Options," located at the bottom of the "Tools" drop-down menu. Select the "Signature" tab, located on the left of the "Options" dialog box. Select the "New" button, which is the top right button of the "Signature" window.
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Check the "Add signatures to all outgoing messages" box if you want your ticker to be included in all emails you send. Check the "Don't add signatures to Replies and Forwards" if you don't want your ticker included in those emails. Both of these options are located in the "Signatures" window under "Signature settings" toward the top of the "Signatures" window.
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Select the "File" option, located below the "Edit Signature" option at the bottom of the "Signatures" window. Select the "Browse" button, located to the right of the "Signatures" window's "File" option.
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Navigate to where you saved your .html file you wrote and saved using Notepad in the dialog box that has appeared on-screen. Select the file by clicking it. Click the "Open" button, located to the right of the .html's file name on the on-screen dialog box.
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Select "OK," located on the bottom of the "Signatures" window. Your ticker will now appear as a signature at the bottom of your emails.
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