How to Put a Header in Yahoo Mail

By Kevin Lee

Impress friends with emails that contain graphic headers.
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Yahoo's email editor enables you to resize and color text, but it still looks like colored text that's larger than the rest. If you'd like to create email messages that stand out, emulate professional website designers and add a graphic header to your messages. The word "header" can also refer to extra data that resides in email messages. If you'd like to trace the route that a Yahoo email took to arrive in your inbox, you can do that by viewing the message's header information.

Creating a Header

Step 1

Create a header image you'd like to use in your email. You can do this using an image editing program such as Paint, Microsoft Word or even an online service that helps people create Web banners.

Step 2

Upload your image to ImageShack, Photobucket or another site that hosts images for free. The site gives you a URL after you upload the image.

Step 3

Paste that URL into your browser's Address bar and press "Enter" to view the page that contains the image. Right-click the image and select "Copy Image Location" from the context menu that appears. Your menu item may say "Copy Image," “Copy Image Address” or "Copy Picture" depending on the browser you use. Select “Copy” if you use Internet Explorer.

Step 4

Create a new Yahoo email message and right-click an area at the top of the message composition box. Press "Ctrl-V" to paste your image header into the message. Click below the header and type the text that you want to appear in your message. When you're done, you'll have a professional looking graphic header that sits on top of your email message text. Click "Send" to send the message to your recipient.

View Header Information in Regular Yahoo Mail

Step 1

Open one of your Yahoo email messages.

Step 2

Click "Actions" and then click "VIew Full Header." Yahoo opens the Full Header window that displays the message's header information.

Step 3

Review the information and click "OK" to close the window and return to the main Yahoo window.

View Header Information in Yahoo Mail Classic

Step 1

Open an email message you'd like to examine.

Step 2

Click the "Full Headers" link at the bottom of the message. Find that link in the message window's lower left corner. Yahoo displays the header.

Step 3

Review the header's information and click "Compact Headers Link" to hide the header and return to the normal message view.

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