As well as the button to include
attachments, the Insert tab features
a Picture button so you can insert an image into your email,
as opposed to just sending it as an attached file. Once
inserted, you can select it with your mouse and adjust its size
(drag the corners as you can see here).You can browse through these styles
using the drop-down arrow next to the
style selection box. As well as fairly standard styles, there
are some other ways you can get text to stand out including
quotes and what are called ‘Intense’ styles, which place
quotes in between parallel lines to encourage reading.You’re able to easily change the colour
of the text in your email and, while you
still have a limited range to choose from, you’ve still got a lot of
choice (far more than in many other apps, anyway). Strangely
Windows chooses to take most of these colours from your
current Windows theme. No, we’re not sure why, either.There are also various pre-defined styles
you can apply to text – useful if you’re
writing a long email and you need to have sub-headings or
headlines in the text. These work very similarly to styles in
Microsoft Office; styles that you might use for a report or essay.As well as styles, Bold, Italic and
Underline, there are other ways
you can make text stand out or add emphasis. As in Word,
you can have subscript or superscript text or add highlighting
(quite useful for quick editing of paragraphs in emails).
Finally, you can clear the formatting of any selected text.As well as just writing simple plain text
emails, there are plenty more editing
functions in Mail, which we’ll check out in the next few steps.
Using the Format tab at the top of the editing window, you
can change selected text – here we’ve used bold to highlight a
particular phrase.Define Styles Inserting Images
Apply Styles Change Colour
Edit Text More Text Options