Personalize Journal Notes by Using Stationery
Published: April 22, 2003
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Summary
Make your work easier by creating your own office stationery. In Microsoft Windows Journal, you can create stationery by using settings for line color and spacing, paper size and color, and background colors and pictures. Personalize your Journal notes to suit the needs of your task, whether it's writing an agenda or taking notes at a meeting.
Learn how to create personalized office stationery and customize your notes to make them appear exactly the way that you want them.
Creating Personalized Office Stationery
Do you prefer narrow lines instead of wide? Yellow paper instead of white? In Journal, you can make notes appear just the way you want. For example, you can change the line spacing in a note to match the way you write. Or you can change the page size to fit your needs.
You can create a new look for just the current note you're working on or specify settings that will be the default for all new notes that you open in Journal.
Parts of Stationery You Can Change
To personalize your notes, you can adjust:
| • | Paper size, color, and orientation |
| • | Line color and spacing |
| • | Background colors and pictures |
| • | Title area format |
When personalizing notes, you can change the settings in two ways: for a current note or for new notes.
Creating a One-Time Change in the Look of My Note
When you personalize the note that you are working on, the settings you change apply only to that note. When you want new notes to look the same every time you open Journal, you can change the default settings that will affect all new notes.
To personalize a current note
1. | On the File menu, tap Page Setup. |
2. | On the Paper tab, select paper size and page orientation. |
3. | On the Style tab, select lines and colors. |
4. | On the Background and Title Area tab, select background pictures and format the title area. |
5. | Tap OK. |
Changing Settings for All New Notes
When you want to adjust settings so that they apply to all new notes, you can specify them as the default settings. Changing the default settings determines how all new notes will appear. (If you want to switch from one type of note to another, it's best to create templates for each type of note that you need. See the article Creating and Using Journal Templates.)
To set the default for all new notes
1. | On the File menu, tap Page Setup. |
2. | On the Paper tab, select paper size and page orientation. |
3. | On the Style tab, select lines and colors. |
4. | On the Background and Title Area tab, select background pictures and format the title area. |
5. | Tap Set as Default, and then tap OK. |
Notes
| • | To print background colors and images, be sure to select the Background colors and images check box on the Options page in the Print dialog box. |
| • | You can set automatic or fixed page sizes on the Paper tab. When you select Auto in the Paper list, the automatic setting makes the pages of new notes as large as possible without scroll bars. This means that if the zoom level is set at 100% (and the find pane, the note list pane, and the Tablet PC Input Panel pen input area are not open), no scroll bars appear. The fixed settings in the Paper list make the pages of new notes align with the standard size that you select. Fixed settings are useful when you want to print your notes. |
Using Pictures in Stationery
You can use background pictures to create visual effects, such as logos, in your notes. Background pictures are graphics that you place in a note for the backdrop of your stationery. You can position a background picture and adjust its transparency.
To set a background picture for stationery
1. | On the File menu, tap Page Setup. |
2. | On the Background and Title Area tab, under Background, tap Browse. |
3. | Browse to a folder containing an image file that you want to use for your background picture. |
4. | Select the image file, and then tap Open. |
5. | In the Position list, tap a background picture position. |
6. | Move the slider to adjust the transparency value of your background picture to ensure that the picture does not distract from the ink on a page. View the level of transparency of the picture in the Preview area. |
7. | Tap OK. |
Notes
| • | To print background colors and images, be sure to select the Background colors and images check box on the Options page in the Print dialog box. |
| • | The file size of your note increases with the file size of the graphics file that you use for a background image. If you want to limit the file size of your note, be sure to use a graphics file with a small size for a background picture. |
| • | You can find a variety of images suitable for use as stationery background pictures on your hard disk in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery. You can download more from Design Gallery Live. |
