A good way to promote green attitudes is to add a 'green' message to your emails. The best place is probably at the bottom then it will be seen without distracting from the purpose of your email. How do you do this? Well follow this simple guide ...
First a couple of premises - you use a PC running Windows (any version); you use a reasonably well featured email programme such as Outlook or Outlook Express, and there are many others too.
Let's add the following line to the footer of your emails:
P please consider the environment before printing this email!
Go to your emailer (Outlook used in this example) and select Tools, Options, Mail format. Near the bottom of the window click on the Signatures... button. Select the signature to be edited and click the Edit... button. Put your data entry pointer at the position where you want the green message to appear and type ...
P please consider the environment before printing this email!
Note that there are at least two spaces between 'P' and 'please'.
Now select the capital P at the start of the message. Click the Font... button. Scroll down the list of fonts and select Webdings. Select Regular style and Size 24. Click OK and OK again. Repeat the last few actions on any other signatures. Click OK and OK again. Test by opening a new email, replying to an existing email and forwarding an existing email (no need to actually send them); look at the footer and you should see your message to the world!
Other emailers will use a similar process. Corporate systems may have disabled signature update in order to preserve a corporate message. Try and convince the service administrators to include the green message with their standard message. Remind them how much less paper the company will consume if the message gets through!
This is just an example of what you can do. There are lots of other graphics in the Webdings font. To see what they are just type the alphabet and set the font to Webdings.
Note that the Webdings graphics will not show up on a system that does not have the Webdings font installed.
This idea has been cribbed from Cosmo Services (UK) Ltd, Peterborough. Thanks very much to them for a very good idea!
