Creating a New Text Message or Return Address

1. Select anywhere within the envelope on the Run Mail screen. You can also select the Edit envelope link.
2. Select the Text Messages & Return Addresses option from the list box on the left of the Edit envelope screen.
3. Select New link at the bottom of the screen. Enter the message in the dialogue box. If you use the on-screen keyboard to enter the text, select Close and then Save when complete.

NOTE: the number of characters per line depends on the size of the font (see step 5). For Arial 10 point, the limit is 100 characters per line.

4. Enter the name of the Text message when prompted and then select OK.
5. To change the font of the Text Message, select Format.

6. The font tab allows you to select the type (eg.,arial), style (bold, italic, underline), size and font colour.

   For font colour, you can select black, postal red, choose from a standard set of colours, or create a custom colour.

   • Standard colours: select from a set of colours displayed as a series of colour buttons. Each button corresponds to a particular pre-set RGB value.
   • Custom colours: Create a customised RGB colour by entering colour values numbers between 0 and 255 (where 0 removes all traces of the colour and 255 adds the colour completely) in the RGB fields.
   • Alternatively, you can drag the cross hair in the colour spectrum box and slide the pointer bar up and down the saturation selection bar. As you make adjustments the corresponding RGB values are updated and displayed on the screen.
7. To adjust the horizontal or vertical alignment of the message or Return Address, select the Text Block tab and select the appropriate alignment options.
8. To remove the message/Return Address from the envelope, deselect it.

NOTE: If you deselect a message, in order for the message to reappear in the list, you must select the colour filter button that corresponds to the colour of the message. For example, if you created the message in postal ink, select the postal ink filter button to re-display all of the messages done in postal ink.

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Adding a Text Message or Return Address

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