You’ll notice our Letterhead is starting to change. You might want to copy #FFFFFF to the clipboard, where going to use it three more times.

When we choose white from out pallet, you’ll see the hexadecimal color change to #FFFFFF. You’ll see that the colors are displayed in Hexadecimal. Luckily there is a little pallet Icon we can click to choose a standard color. We’re going to make the dividing lines disappear as well. First let’s change the background color by clicking the “Edit Background Color” button at the top left of the letterhead. I’m going to go for a rather a stark clean look since my header and footer graphics are already created to leverage white.

top left justified), background color and height of the logo box. As illustrated in the screenshot below, you can change the colors for the Background and Body (where you type), the height and colors of the three dividing lines, and in the Header and Footer sections at the top and bottom of the letterhead you can change the Logo alignment (e.g. Ok, the next screen is a bit ugly for your “out of the box” letterhead. Be sure to click the “Available for Use” checkbox – if you don’t, you can’t create an HTML email that uses that Letterhead. Give the Letterhead a name and description. On the next screen you’ll see the Letterhead Properties screen. Go to Setup > Administration Setup > Letterheads, then click the “New Letterhead” button. Now that we have our images uploaded, we can now create the letterhead. To load our graphics into the Documents folder we are going to go to the Documents Tab, create a new folder called “Logos,” then upload our images.īe sure when you are creating your document to click the “Externally Available Image” – if you don’t, the graphic won’t render when you send an email! For this example I’m going to upload both a header and footer image. The height is not as much of an issue, use your esthetic judgment, but 200 pixels or less would probably be ideal. I’ve found that if you want a logo to span the entire width of the email, that you want your graphic to be no wider than 600 pixels. It’s a template that you can use to incorporate your brand when sending emails from Salesforce.īefore you go barreling into creating a Letterhead, you first need to have your logo (or whatever graphic you’d like to use) in your Documents folder ready to go. What is a letterhead in Salesforce? Think of old school business stationary with your company logo that you used to put in a typewriter for sending out business communications – you do remember those days, right? A letterhead is conceptually the same. As I’ve posted before, branded HTML emails are a great way to push your brand AND have the extra benefit of tracking in Salesforce whether your email was received and opened. So let’s look at the first step at creating an HTML email – the letterhead.

Html email stationery templates