I need help with rich formatting buttons. I don’t know if I messed up by deleting all files in ‘My Stationery’ or not. I’ve just noticed later, after deleting, that the buttons has a letter B on them…all of them.

How can I restore them?

Thank you.

I am using Gmail with IE7 (or trying to). When I compose an email using, or trying to use, Rich Formatting a row of small empty boxes–like the small boxes on the bottom of bank deposit slips for filling in the bank account number–appear above the “Compose Mail” area, each box representing one of the Rich Formatting options, e.g “bold,”italics,” etc. There are no icons in any of the boxes to indicate what the options are. Rather, where there should just be a row of icons representing Rich Formatting functions there is a row of small empty boxes representing icons: when I move the cursor over any empty box in the row of boxes one of the Rich Formatting options ( e.g., “bold,” “italics”) apparently associated with that box is indicated by text, as “bold,” “italics” and the like. It is only in this manner that I can identify which option is associated with which empty box. By selecting text in the email message I am composing and then bringing the cursor to the empty box in the row associated with the “bold” option, for instance, and by then clicking on the box associated with the “bold” option, I can manage to bold the selected text. Both cumbersome and slow (and hardly worth switching to Gmail for).

Please instruct me as to how I can have the Rich Formatting icons dutifully appear above the Compose Mail window rather than a row of empty little boxes representing the Rich Mail options. The Gmail Help Center reference to the use of Rich Formatting options in composing messages refers to clicking “the icon for the formatting feature you’d like to use”; but no icons are shown! As far as I can tell, I am using a full-featured browser, IE7; I access my Gmail in IE7 by clicking the Gmail icon in the Google tool bar which I installed in IE7. I should be able to use the Rich Formatting options when I compose email messages; I switched to Gmail from AOL recently with the understanding that I could do so. Surely, I can’t be the only one having this problem. When I tried using Firefox on my laptop to access Gmail and compose a message, I had the same problem: the same row of little boxes appeared above the “Compose Mail” window, each of which represented a Rich Formatting function; but no icons showed.

I’m not especially tech savvy; but the icons should appear above the “compose Mail” window, not empty little boxes! If anyone who has had (and, hopefully, solved) this problem, or who has a solution to it, can give me some help here on how to make the Rich Formatting icons appear,I would greatly appreciate it! I can be reached (at least until I give up on Gmail entirely, as I’m now inclined to do) at sosslaw@gmail.com. Thanks for any help you can give.

Harvey Soss

internet explorer
msn
mozilla firefox
can use gooogle rich formatting
a macs normal internet sevice is safari but it doesnt relae to internet explorer since its specialy desgined for windows
any thing designed for windows is usable for the google gmail preferences