What I have done a few times is to crate a new message and then going to the “Format menu” I use the pulldown going to “Show Fonts” menu. when that has opened I select the font I want to use. After writing something-anything to make a place holder for font/typing to the 3rd selector box (one with the green/yellow background) and click on it. After that I choose a color from the color selector that pops up which colors the font itself. Then going back to the “Show Fonts” menu I select the 4th icon, the one with a blank page on it. This brings up the pop up that allows one to change the background colors. Select whatever color you want for the background color.

Then one can drag an image of their choosing if one needs something in there for whatever reason.

Then go to the “File” menu and choose “save as stationery”….That’s what I discovered works best for my Mac Mail. I am using version 4.2

I hope that this helps someone. This forum is what caused me to find out how to do at lest this in addition to the tutorial at the top of the page.

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I found this at the Apple Web site:
Apple Support Discussions and searched for
“Mail Stationery Templates” in the Mac OS X & Related Software Forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10634454&#10634454

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One can make a stationery and the go to file and save it as a Signature. Or one can create a signature saving it as a jpeg, then create a new signature in the Mail prefs. The one I just did for this comment is my number four. It was a jpeg and I saved it as stationery. After which I created a new email choosing the stationery that I had just made for the message. then I went to EDIT and selected all, copied it and then pasted it into the number four window in the right hand side.

Then drag the completed signature into however many email addresses you want it to be available. At the bottom of the Signature window in the prefs, which is the one that we have been working in, look at the bottom and notice that there is a pull-down that states “CHOOSE SIGNATURE:” just pull it down to choose which address you want it to always be put into.

Let me know how this goes for you. It works just fine in my iMac 2009 using Mac Mail v4.2 and OS 10.6.3

The Apple Mail tech couldn’t figure it out with me either. So they have turned this over to the engineers at Apple.

I received a note about how old this thread is, but I guess it keeps going since many of us are new to 10.6.4. (apple actually replaced my 3 year old macbookpro because of a logic board issue–so now I have a ***free*** current macbookpro that’s screwing up my older 3rd party apps… but I am not complaining).

NOW if someone could only really teach me how to use this new track pad.