Stationery
October 8th, 2008 Filed in: All-New Mail,Hints & Tips 114 comments
(40 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5)
Loading ...How many of you have seen or used the Stationery feature on Yahoo!7 Mail? Our Yahoo!7 Mail Stationery allows you to get creative with your emails by adding a funky background theme to your email and also makes your emails stand out from the crowd.
Stationery can take on another dimension during special events, so on this Halloween why not send someone a scary (though not too scary!) email complete with spooky stationery? There’s a whole series of themes available ranging from abstract and arty to pretty and psychedelic, you’ll definitely find one to suit the mood of your mail!
Currently the stationery feature is only available in the all-new version of Yahoo!7 Mail, so if you’re using Yahoo!7 Mail Classic and want to use stationery then why not switch over to a 21st Century experience.
Let us know what you think of the Stationery feature… Is it good, bad or ugly? Are there any themes you would like added? Send us your suggestions, we’ll listen.
All the best,
Will – Yahoo!7 Mail Team
So how do I use Stationery?
We’re glad you asked!
Firstly, you need to make you are using the All-New Yahoo!7 Mail rather than Classic. If you need help on how to switch, check out Sabrina’s post over here.
Next, you need to click on “New” as seen below, to compose a new email:
Then click on the “Stationery” option that is seen to the right-hand side of your new email message. This will slide the Stationery options down the right of your email message.
Simply clicking on any of the thumbnail pictures on the right will then apply that particular stationery to your message.
By selecting the “Featured” link, you will be able to navigate to other categories and choose more cool stationery to spice up your emails. Choices include, amongst others, animals, flowers, holidays, sports or patterns!
Below, you can see an email I am currently composing to my Mum, using the Yahoo!7 Liam blowing heart bubbles. Do you think she will like it?
Now it’s time for you to go and check it out! Be sure to come back and let us know which one’s your favourite 
Happy Emailing,
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team
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114 Comments Add your own
1. Codey&hellip | October 10th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Can u let us combine stationaries or even Let us defualt them to come up when we go on
2. Yahoo!7 Mail Team&hellip | October 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hey there Codey,
If you have have turned stationery on, and then logout and come back later, it will still be turned on next time you compose an email.
Thanks for your feedback!
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team
3. Georgia&hellip | October 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
i love the stationary is cool. i like usng it on my emails.
4. Alane&hellip | October 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
i think that stationary is cool man!!!!
5. Linda Walding&hellip | October 13th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I love using the stationery. It makes email writing even more pleasurable. I was especially thrilled to discover it on the new Yahoo because the previous stationery from ‘Fun Web’ stopped working. I can still use the other ‘Fun Web’ features – just not the stationery, so the Yahoo version was a Godsend!!! My mother thinks I am artistic – little does she know how simple it is to change text colours and click on the different backgrounds!!!
6. Areiv&hellip | October 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Maybe a night sky one? With stars and the moon and stuff?
We could be able to create our own stationary with our own pictures and images! It would be a unique stationary.
7. g-man&hellip | October 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
love it!
8. Jess&hellip | October 16th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I think you should let us be more creative in the stationary like adding something new that other emails wouldn’t have to make this email in another way obiously the best
9. Jan&hellip | October 16th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
How about having animated characters?
10. Goanna93&hellip | October 16th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Where do I click to get the stationary?
11. sabble mcdabble&hellip | October 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
hey,
stationery is kwl!
good job yahoo!7 mail team!
12. Deborah&hellip | October 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
I think stationary is great ! I would like to be able to use a photograph as stationary but faded like a watermark. That would be VERY COOL ! That way you could have a pic of the person you are sending the email to or one of yourself and your email friend together to really personalise your emails. Thank for the op to air my view.
13. Mark Gregory&hellip | October 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hi Team,
We use the Yahoo!7 email account for our not for profit assoication and I would like a semi corportate group of stationary so that we can use it for the association. All the rest is good for fun/friends/family but no good for that usage. Based around your motif and left hand edge margin types (eg laces under sport). I would be really happy to use that type.
Also could an import funciton be built in so that it could be personalized. Yes I can see some of the issues of copyright and obcenity from your point of view but it’s a thought.
All in all about 9/10 for the implementation.
Regards….mark
14. Michelle&hellip | October 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
thats kool
15. Bec&hellip | October 26th, 2008 at 8:12 am
How do you get this stationary application?
16. Kacey Dawson&hellip | October 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I think stationary is awesome!
It is so cool on my emails.
17. melanie&hellip | October 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
gee great would be good if you bothered to tell us HOW to add or use these stationary’s instead of just telling us they are apparently available.
yea WHERE………….??? How??
and don’t say yahoo 7 I already have that.
18. shahriar&hellip | October 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
salam
19. Yahoo!7 Mail Team&hellip | October 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
I have just edited this post to include instructions on where to find Stationery in Yahoo!7 Mail and how to use it.
Let me know how you go!
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team
20. Yahoo!7 Mail Blog »&hellip | October 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
[...] So without further ado, head on over to Will’s post on Stationery to check it out! [...]
21. Leah-Mae&hellip | October 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
this stationery is cool i think you should make yahoo 7 around the world number 1 website it’s awesome nearly all my friends have yahoo7 email addresses and i also think you should put some more awesome things on yahoo 7
22. ISO TAN&hellip | November 4th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Can you get me a pen pal?
23. karuna&hellip | November 8th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
way cool! how about animations or an icon to upload videos as stationery? there could be a play button for the recipent, of course.
24. Kathleen&hellip | November 9th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I think the sationary is really fun and creative. Me and my friend both use backgrounds in our emails we love to use the nature ones! Great job Yahoo!
25. Kathleen&hellip | November 9th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I agree with Areiv, about how we should be able to costamize our statioary….that would be even cooler and would be very different!
26. Imelda&hellip | November 10th, 2008 at 4:19 am
nein
27. tassie&hellip | November 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
can u send winks on y7mail if so how n ive tryed 2 download y7 chat but it says theres an error n never lets mi download it!!!!!!!!!!plzzzzzzz help mii thanx
28. luke&hellip | November 10th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I like to play ball games n room games
29. Juliet Jacobsen&hellip | November 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Hi can you make a bigger variety like:
Valentines day, christmas, and club thingos ect.
30. Katie&hellip | November 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hi i was just wondering if you can put winks on it.
31. Theresa&hellip | November 21st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Hello,
For a long time I have been wanting to pretty up my emails but didn’t know how so I’m delighted you have created the stationary option, but more choices would be good. And remember not all your users are young so some styles that would appeal to older people would be terriffic. Would also really appreciate it if you would add other things to help us make our emails attractive and interesting. I would love to be able to include beautiful pictures in the body of the emails as well, and could we have a clip board type method to store them so we can access our own little collection picutres (or yours). Clip art would be good. And more upmarket emoticons and other little character type things to put in. I very much hope you are able to do these things as making my emails more attractive would give me a lot of pleasure. Thank you. Warm regards
32. Kaz&hellip | November 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 am
I love the pandas!
It would be great to have an “add custom” feature but you would need to give us instructions on what file type and size to use (for those of us who bother to actually read)!
It is odd that when someone replies, the stationery drops out, but I’ll get over it.
Can we submit our own for you to add to the application, maybe?
PS: I love having a “proper” email address. Really helped me in getting my funky new job. Thanks Yahoooooooooooo! K:)
33. oliver Hall&hellip | November 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Great thankyou. Haven’t used it yet,but I intend to from now on.
Keep up the good work.
regards Oliver
34. Anne&hellip | November 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
new look Yahoo 7 mail is great! The new home page and search engine is so efficient too. Love the staionary, No more incredimail for me!!!!
35. Margaret Ann&hellip | November 25th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
The stationery is fabulous; just what I have been looking for and often go to a my card-making software to jazz things up – now I don’t have to. Many thanks. I like them all for different occasions.
36. shirley&hellip | November 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Loving the stationery, makes emails a lot more interesting to write.
Would you be able to do more Christmas ones and also Birthdays would be great…
Thanks
37. Michael Herzog&hellip | November 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I wish they could start a L or P plate club of sorts
so that older/newer users of these systems could
be able to understand and master them easier!!!
All these free things are great, however, unless you are a child or teenager currently going to school, you have not had exposure and access to
much of the new or even older technology that is
currently being offered. You really should think about older Australians and indigenous australians who have had very limited exposure to this equipment; and perhaps offer some type of
navigation through it.
38. mathew.astill&hellip | November 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
hi
39. carlee&hellip | December 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 am
tnx my emails were dull but now there not
40. Yahoo!7 Mail Blog »&hellip | December 10th, 2008 at 10:33 am
[...] If you are not too sure what Stationery is or how to use it, be sure to check out Will’s post over here. [...]
41. Marie-Therese&hellip | December 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I use the stationery and it makes e-mails look very nice.
My only problem is that when people send me a reply the stationery becomes an attachment to their e-mail. Why does this happen?
Thanks!
42. loz&hellip | December 13th, 2008 at 8:33 am
my friends say that my backgrounds don’t show up when they receive my emails. Why is this? is it because they r using hotmail???
thnx
43. alex&hellip | December 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
my favourite background is the city skyline!!!
i think u should add more new things
44. angel&hellip | December 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
this stationary shit sucks =]
45. andre&hellip | January 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
hi team y7m! you make email the best
46. Jas&hellip | January 8th, 2009 at 10:57 am
hi yahoo mail team
the stationary is awsome but you can add musical stuff in like guitars. thanks. God Bless
Jas
47. chloe&hellip | January 9th, 2009 at 9:57 am
i need help to change my picture ??????????????
48. Ashleigh&hellip | January 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Hi
the stationary is cool but can you add some round the pics or some pics with friends on it if so thanks
Bye Bye
Ashleigh
49. geckochurch&hellip | January 24th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
it’s great ,i mean i’ve all ways been a creative person and the emails are totally dull and boring
with out it .so thank you yahho for making my day.
50. kthnxbie&hellip | February 5th, 2009 at 1:44 am
yeah. so. i have stationary.
but i want more options.
and one of the people who send me mail has different stationary than me. how can i change what stationary i have. because i don’t like my options (i don’t want abstract and sports and crap) and he keeps sending me cutesy letters with sanrio (hello kitty, etc) charcters, which would be better suited for me.
so, how is the basis of who gets what stationary determined?
and i really want new statioanry!
51. Eleanor&hellip | February 13th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I think there should be more backgrounds and variations of the stationary such as stickers, borders and other features. With those- it would be awesome and people would use it lost more!
52. sarah&hellip | February 14th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
hi
53. lilli Stevens&hellip | February 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
i love statanary!!!
54. kitty&hellip | February 21st, 2009 at 12:03 pm
hi i love statanry it is fun to send backgrounds with your e mail
55. tianna&hellip | February 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
this is stupid i cant get it working
56. AICHA&hellip | February 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
CAN I BE YOUR PEN PAL SARAH?
57. AICHA&hellip | February 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 pm
ACTULLY CAN I BE SOMEONE FRIEND ONLINE?
58. asmaa&hellip | February 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
stop this ok
59. jennie&hellip | February 26th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
well i just got a acount and i would like some friends and stuff so were like pen pals so plz:)
and also if i have no friends i will prob look like this
but i dont really care coz i have hotmail but still. 
60. jennie&hellip | February 26th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
im awsome so add meeeeeeeeeeeeeee plz!!!!!!!
61. Liz&hellip | March 7th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Love the new stationery but would appreciate more professional designs or some options for customizing. But thanks for moving in the right direction.
62. Ann&hellip | March 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Hi Hi Hi
63. Emily&hellip | March 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I love the stationary. It’s AWESOME!!!!
64. Ani&hellip | March 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Can we have a funky background, instead of haveing the normal blue, pink, green, orange, purple etc, as well???
65. Steph&hellip | March 26th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I love the whole stationary BUT!!!!! One thing that really bothers me is that the old email/classic email has sanrio/hellokitty stationary. ITs soooo cute!! BUT!!! the new yahoo email does not provide that stationary! =’(..why not? Hello kitty should be provided in the new email please! Please please! Thank you ^_^
66. Skye&hellip | March 26th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I think that the stationary is GREAT, but for the celebrations, maybe something to do with Easter would be good? Also some more animals. I really like the idea of using your own photos as well.
67. emma&hellip | March 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
hey i just wanted to say that the stationary is awsome. Me and my boyfreind love it to bits. We organised my next door neighbours partay by email. we sent his invitations by email using the treasure map backround. Everyone loved it. They said it looked proffesional and that they were changing to yahoo email.
68. emma&hellip | March 28th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I love it and all but on some emails it blocks the picture coming up. how do i fix that?
69. Eliah&hellip | March 29th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I’v always wanted to do this!
70. Eliah&hellip | March 29th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I’ve always wanted one! So can I get on to it now?
71. kamaili&hellip | March 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I like the stationary! I used to use a diffenernt one on every email but i ran out. mabey there could be like a “theme of the day” kinda thing or be able to uplaod images from personal files or the internet to add as a bacround
72. RAJKUMAR&hellip | April 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Staiontionary optitions are OK but it will be AWESOME if we can add our own picture or painting. Please let us know if there will be any such added feature in future.
73. Ani&hellip | April 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Can we cusomize our own background? We can add different colors and stuff like that and then add it to our email as a cool and creative background with your own design!
74. Nuriyah&hellip | April 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
i really like stationary. i always use one type of stationary to my uncle. he really enjoys seeing what type of email i have for him.
75. Tom&hellip | April 10th, 2009 at 8:19 am
il ad any if they tell me thir email address
76. Celia&hellip | April 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Can you like send something to your friend and they click on the email thing and its like its being thrown at them??? I think Stationary is awthome!!!
77. Yahoo!7 Mail Blog »&hellip | April 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
[...] For a quick guide on how to use Stationery, check out Will’s post over here. [...]
78. corwin&hellip | April 21st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
yous should put some house hold items in the stationarysuch as a bed, toilet , bath tub, E.T.C.
79. Samuel&hellip | April 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Is it possible to add some extra features to the stationary,cos it is really cool.
80. Janet&hellip | April 27th, 2009 at 5:22 am
This is so cool!
81. Stefan&hellip | April 27th, 2009 at 8:48 am
How do you do those weird faces
82. Yahoo!7 Mail Blog »&hellip | May 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
[...] If you are not too sure what Stationery is or how to use it, be sure to check out Will’s post over here. [...]
83. Chris&hellip | May 5th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I have been using Yahoo Classic for a while now and never noticed the stionary option until just now. I’ts awesome. Allows much more individuality.
Thanks Kate
84. COURK&hellip | May 11th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I THINK IT IS AWSOME
85. william&hellip | May 18th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
i think we should mixes up backrounds
86. Lesley&hellip | June 5th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I think the Stationery is awesome I use it alot and always get wonderful comments about it. Would love to have some brighter colours on the Festive Fun stuff though,
Cheers great work Yahoo 7
87. connor&hellip | June 10th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
this is awesome but can we combine background colours and pictures?
88. Carol&hellip | July 1st, 2009 at 2:30 am
What city is in the nighttime skyline pic on the stationery? What is the name of this city?
89. Jaiden Walker&hellip | July 6th, 2009 at 8:05 am
can we be alowed to mixed our favourite fetures together so its our design or maybe we could draw our design and press something to put it on the email message backgrounds
90. dianne&hellip | July 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
hi!!!!
2 OL!!!!!!
91. Taya&hellip | July 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am
what about animated letters, sayings and phrases? That i think would be really cool and give a little more edge. Especially during chat!
92. Charita&hellip | July 16th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
This rock soo much it is the best on the yahoo mail!!!
93. Charita&hellip | July 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I LOVE IT SOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
94. hannah&hellip | July 21st, 2009 at 10:23 am
hi!!
lol
hi jorden
95. afraa&hellip | July 30th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
hi wat up i love yahoo mail it rocks and i rock da world lol laugh out loud yer!!!! my friends are kool
96. afraa&hellip | July 30th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
wats up peeps!!!! lol add me plzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
97. Drazirahc25&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Hi!!!
I think the stationary option is AWESOME!!!!
The YAHOO team totally ROCK!!!
98. elmo&hellip | August 29th, 2009 at 7:18 am
hey hannah
99. Anna Pip&hellip | September 8th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Stationary is soooo cool! It makes emails sooo fun 2 write!
100. Zoomy&hellip | September 10th, 2009 at 5:03 am
The stationery is great. An “add custom stationery” feature would make it even *more* awesome.
101. justin&hellip | September 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
there should be a setting so you can make your own stationary
102. Jeane Portner&hellip | September 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I love your stationary.Especially all the ones that have Liam,blowing bubbles,surffing etc.
I am trying to put one of Liam’s cutsies as an icon for Yahoo mail on my desktop and have worked for 3 hours.
I am an 80 year old lady, and it just doesn’t work.
Can you help me.
103. Steve&hellip | October 15th, 2009 at 12:44 am
I would love to see an “add custom stationary” option.
104. New Stationery: Star Trek&hellip | October 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
[...] check out this comprehensive guide that I wrote last year on how to use [...]
105. Amy&hellip | November 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Anyway that we can create our own, personalized stationary?
106. Janet Rogers&hellip | November 28th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I have yahoo, and would like to use Incredimail, but keep getting an err 530 access denied. invalid user/password
107. Shelley&hellip | January 22nd, 2010 at 2:17 am
Why is the Hello Kitty stationary only available in classic Yahoo email and not in Yahoo Plus? I should have access to it and I don’t (and I paid for the plus version.)
108. jo&hellip | February 1st, 2010 at 10:16 am
What is the location of the night sky line? is it san francisco. People say it is fresno, ca.
109. Ed&hellip | March 20th, 2010 at 2:19 am
is there any way to insert my own stationary to yahoo mail ?
110. xtine&hellip | April 20th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Isn’t it nice if we can upload our own stationery. I mean, what if I would like to personalize my stuff and I’d like to have my picture as the background.. hmmm..
111. jerry&hellip | April 29th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
When will Yahoo update their stationary? I would like to see more holidays like Easter and 4th of July. and less of liam. Thanks Jerry
112. Yahoo!7 Mail Team&hellip | May 5th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
@Ed and @xtine – Hi there, at the moment no, you cannot add your own stationery template to Mail. But that’s a great idea.
113. barbara hickam&hellip | May 20th, 2010 at 1:55 am
How can I keep “Stationery” off the screen and retrieve it only when I want it? It’s there all the time on the e-mail screen…It takes up too much space and my e-mails are crowded. I know when I select “forward” the option is there to get it off.
Otherwise It’s a nice feature, especially around the holidays and thanks for it..
114. Nate&hellip | June 27th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Heya, just wondering when u would come out with some more new ones…i love the night scene ones. those are awesome. Just random but do u think u could make a volleyball one ? special request
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