Comments on: Creating HTML Signatures on Outlook 2007

By: bullchicken

bullchicken — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:05:11 +0000

Just load the signature html in internet explorer, then copy it and paste it into the signature editing window.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:29:12 +0000

Hi,

Just ran across this. Everyone had the right idea (Vista and Outlook 2007). Only think I had to change to get this to work was to change the file extension of my existing signature from .html to .htm … and magically it appeared.

Thanks all

Stu

By: David Marsh

David Marsh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:31:35 +0000

The problem I have is that I need my html code to have image mapping capability and with Outlook 2007 I haven’t been able to figure out how to implement that. I use image mapping to make certain areas of the the email signature “clickable” and others just picture.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated…thanks!

By: U.C.

U.C. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:31:23 +0000

Guys,

there is an easier way:

Create your HTML file (if you have images they should be on web server of course)

then copy your file under C:\Documents & settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

user name = your windows user name.

then when you go to the outlook signatures page, you will see your html there.

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:27:11 +0000

I have not found a great solution yet, but I can tell you that since Outlook 2007 is XML based and the older versions are not, for some reason without the XML, Outlook will not embed the image. But if you copy and paste the signature like mentioned above, then look at the signature HTML file on the computer, you’ll see there is a ton of XML. At that point, the image address is actually readable. If you have a central system managing your email signatures like we do, you’d have to create one signature file for Outlook 2007 and then another for all the rest.

Hopefully that helps someone.

By: byjil

byjil — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:21:06 +0000

Daniel Murray..
i think that only works if your email will be read on explorer but not on outlook…

can u try another simple thing??
what my problem also is..
i want that under my name there is a moving text

eg.

Just Kidding

like that??

thanks a lot..

By: Daniel Murray

Daniel Murray — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:14:13 +0000

Wow easy! If you have a website, upload the html file you want as you signature file, select the area, copy and paste in to your signature edit area. done

another way, if on vista this is the path: C:\Users\Home\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures

not sure about XP but there is one. not hard to find I’m sure…

anyway… just edit the .htm file. Copy and paste your html code over that.

Can’t believe Microsoft for not making it simple!!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:15:41 +0000

Hi,

I’m having what may be a very basic problem. I only want to put the text of my signature beside my company logo. With Outlook 2003 I simply created this using a text box in Word, but now I do this, copy and paste from the browser and it reverts to pasting the text below the image. Is there any way to resolve this?
Thanks.

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By: Sponge

Sponge — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:32:37 +0000

Tried almost all solutions on the web.. but none work the way i want to.

This is how i tried to do it:
1) make new signature in outlook 2007.
2) find the file that outlook creates.
3) pasted my own html code in the correct place (somewere near the bottom after all the crap code outlook puts in).
4) opened outlook and made a new email.
5) attached the signature.
6) picture goes all wacky (gets really small, while it originally is 600px wide).

I don’t have a clue why this happens.. All sizes and entire style is defined to the pixel in the html code, but oulook seems to FAIL at showing it they way it’s supposed to look.

Any thoughts?