So, I'm scrounging today - first time in a while I haven't had a post lined up and ready to go ahead of time. And I'm thinking of things I did today, since it was the first work day (for me) of the month, and I thought of something very useful. Stationery in Eudora! Stationery is a great way to save yourself from having to retype the same, or similar emails over and over again over time. Read on...
I have a monthly report that gets sent to me, that (to make a long story short) I have to break out into about five pieces, cut and paste into five emails and send.
To save myself time, I wrote a single email a long time ago with all of the description and explanation, which I just bring up, change the name and address on, paste in my details from the report, and then send via Eudora. It saves a lot of re-inventing the wheel every time I have to send it.
To create Stationery (or what I like to call a form letter) in Eudora, write a standard email that you want to save and instead of sending it, go to File, Save as Stationery. (You'll have to save it with a file name, but it saves in your My Documents, so it does get backed up...)
Then, if you go to Tools and then down to Stationery, there it is. If you double-click it, you have another copy of that same email ready to go. (Just remember to fill in the To: address, and change any appropriate information in the body of the message before you hit Send!)
I've used this trick for a long time - it's great for canned responses for questions you get asked a lot and find yourself having to retype every time, or if you're a step ahead, searching through your outbox and forwarding a previously written message. (I do that sometimes, but only if I'm reminding someone I sent them the answer a while back, and they just don't remember!)

Comments (2)
I also love using Stationery to reply to some messages. Instead of just hitting reply on a message, go to the Eudora menu and click Message > Reply with and then select the appropriate Stationery for the reply.
Posted by Susan | September 2, 2008 9:47 AM
Posted on September 2, 2008 09:47
I also use the Stationery in Eudora....what a time saver!!
Posted by Chris | September 2, 2008 4:10 PM
Posted on September 2, 2008 16:10