Creating HTML Signatures on Outlook 2007

March 13, 2008 10:51 by merill

Outlook 2003 had a nice feature that allowed you to create a signature from an HTML file. This went missing in Outlook 2007 and a google search for Outlook 2007 signatures brings up a number of posts with people asking for help on how to do this.

ScottH posted a tip that showed you how to do it but it involved editing an obscure html file, the location of which varied from XP to Vista.

The solution is quite simple really and left me scratching my head as to why I didn't think of it before. All you need to do this is the humble copy and paste.

Using a browser open up the html file that you want to embed as your signature, highlight everything and copy/paste it to the signature window in Outlook 2007.

Here is a step-by-step on how to do this.

1. Create your signature using Google Pages. Browse to http://pages.google.com (create an account and log-in if you don't have one)

2. Click on the Image button and upload the image that you want to include in your signature. Format the rest of your signature and Publish it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. In the resulting page, highlight any part of the page that you want to include in your signature and Copy it.

 

4. Switch to Outlook 2007. In a new message, on the Message tab, in the Include group, click Signature, and then click Signatures.



6. On the E-mail Signature tab, click New. Type a name for the signature, and then click OK.

7. In the Edit signature box, paste in the signature that you copied from Google Pages.  



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March 13. 2008 20:37

rogo

Man, that hurt............... how didn't I think of it before. Thanks

rogo

March 15. 2008 04:31

Jonathan Battle

Yes but...this pnly works if the link you are putting in your sig is a static one - Im trying to put a link in that changes each time,,isnt working.

Jonathan Battle

March 17. 2008 12:42

dave

doesn't work if you use a table to space your name, title, logo and contact info.. any solutions?

dave

March 23. 2008 06:58

merill

My current signature does have a table. The way I got this to work is by doing up the table in a word document and then copy/paste it into the signature.

merill

April 1. 2008 03:37

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April 3. 2008 04:14

Moses

What about for moving HTML text, such as a marquee. I still haven't been able to get this to work. Any ideas?

Moses

May 6. 2008 20:53

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May 8. 2008 00:32

Michael

Humungous gratitute, I was racking my brain & even downloaded two free programs trying to get a signature with a marquee & image to work.

Michael

July 4. 2008 09:46

Safwan

If you save your html file to an mht using your browser, then you can copy and paste from it and this way you avoid the google step Smile

Safwan

July 14. 2008 04:51

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July 24. 2008 02:33

Ryan

I am able to get an image to appear in my sig file, but... i have a special requirement. The image I am actually call is a .asp page that dynamically generates the image and shows the number of days. hours and minutes before an event. To see what I mean, go to www.customerthankyoucards.com/countdown.asp. This asp spits out the current time until the next event. if this file is called as an email, each time it will update the image. but OL2007 wants to embed it into the email rather than linking to the .asp page and calling it again each time. Is there some way to force it to link rather than embed?

Ryan

July 27. 2008 16:07

css map

HI i need your help i really want to create my own website/web page but i dont know how to go about doing it so can you please help me out

css map

August 24. 2008 01:13

Missy Caulk

site page is gone, replaced by google sites,

Can someone tell me how to do a mybloglog signature in that one, Outlook 2007

Missy Caulk

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