# Outlook Express Agita

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-agita/150387>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 23, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-agita/150387 "2003-01-23T05:10:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-agita/150387/1 "2003-01-23T05:10:24Z")

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I use Outlook Express to compose some e-mails. It’s basically okay, some limitations. There are two things that are vexing me.

1. For a short while, I was able to put a pretty wallpaper into the backgrounds of my emails. It was a cloudy sky. Lovely. THEN, for some uknown reason, it became an attachment, and was no longer in the background, even though when I WROTE the emails, it showed as being in the background of the letter.

2. I can not print any incoming emails to Outlook Express. I can’t figure out WHERE a setting would be for this. When I do try to print it, I get one thick line, that goes about 1/2 way across the page, up at the top, about 1/16th inch thick, then a blank page.

Anyone know about Outlook Express, who might be able to steer me to fixing these two issues?

Many thanks in advance,

Cartooniverse

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-agita/150387/2 "2003-01-23T16:10:03Z")

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1. Check your “format” menu and make sure HTML is checked.

2. I’m not sure I understand your problem. Are you opening the email first or trying to print from the Inbox view?