Including Illustrations in Messages

Outlook 2007 provides a variety of illustration types that you can use to enhance your e-mail. You can add pictures, clip art, shapes, charts, and SmartArt (new to Outlook 2007). You control page layout, so you can place illustrations in any location in your message and then format them in a number of ways, including adding borders, shadows, and three-dimensional (3-D) effects. (Exact options vary between illustration types.) You can wrap your text around illustrations in several styles and even layer text and graphics on top of each other, using transparency effects to make everything visible.

Each type of illustration has one or more groups of commands specific to it, providing the controls needed for that ...

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