Embedded images not appearing when sent with Outlook 2007

[Michael Ray Brown]

Whenever I embed an image in an Outlook 2007 html message, the recipient
sees only a placeholder with a red "X." It's just a small gif file with my
company logo. I realize that I can link to an image on my Web server, but
I'd rather imbed the image. As I recall, in Outlook 2003 there was an
option to include images with the message, but I'm unable to find such a
setting in Outlook 2007. What could be the problem?

 

[graymatter606]

Whenever I embed an image in an Outlook 2007 html message, the recipient
sees only a placeholder with a red "X." It's just a small gif file with my
company logo. I realize that I can link to an image on my Web server, but
I'd rather imbed the image. As I recall, in Outlook 2003 there was an
option to include images with the message, but I'm unable to find such a
setting in Outlook 2007. What could be the problem?

I'm having the same problem, but have reached at least a partial solution.
When I was using Outlook 2002, any image (in whatever format) I embedded and
sent was shown on the recipient's screen. But with Outlook 2007 (and Vista),
this is no longer true. (It is shown when sent to myself however.) Where the
problem is exactly, I'm not sure, but I think Microsoft needs to address this
with an update. Anyway, my workaround is this: First, ensure the image is in
JPEG format when you paste it into a message. Also be sure you paste special
as device independent bitmap. I know the problem is somehow with Vista/Office
2007 because I can send the exact same message/embedded image from a computer
with XP/Office 2002, and the recipient gets it just fine. There may be other
solutions to this problem, but I haven't found them yet. David

 

[Michael Ray Brown]

I've finally had some success creating html stationery that actually
displays the embedded image. The trick is saving the formatted e-mail
message containing the image as an htm file within Outlook 2007. A
subfolder is created with the image (renamed to image001.gif) and three
other files: colorschememapping.xml, filelist.xml, and themedata.thmx. For
some reason the new htm file has two blank lines at the top, which you can
remove using FrontPage or Expression Web.

It's odd that you can apply all sorts of fancy formatting to an image in
Outlook 2007, but apparently you can't type in any alternate text (for a
recipient who chooses to view only plain text e-mail). At least, I haven't
found how to do it... aside from again opening up the htm file in Front
Page.

 

[Michael Ray Brown]

I've finally had some success creating html stationery that actually
displays the embedded image. The trick is saving the formatted e-mail
message containing the image as an htm file within Outlook 2007. A
subfolder is created with the image (renamed to image001.gif) and three
other files: colorschememapping.xml, filelist.xml, and themedata.thmx. For
some reason the new htm file has two blank lines at the top, which you can
remove using FrontPage or Expression Web.

It's odd that you can apply all sorts of fancy formatting to an image in
Outlook 2007, but apparently you can't type in any alternate text (for a
recipient who chooses to view only plain text e-mail). At least, I haven't
found how to do it... aside from again opening up the htm file in Front
Page.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've finally had some success creating html stationery that actually
displays the embedded image.

My question is why you'd want to subject your recipients to that kind of
thing.

 

[Michael Ray Brown]

My question is why you'd want to subject your recipients to that kind of
thing.

You might well ask why Microsoft installs a couple dozen "stationery"
templates with Windows. They all include some embedded graphics. For me
it's my company's logo. I'm not subjecting my clients to very much inbox
bloat.

 

[Brian Tillman]

You might well ask why Microsoft installs a couple dozen "stationery"
templates with Windows. They all include some embedded graphics. For me
it's my company's logo. I'm not subjecting my clients to very
much inbox bloat.

Some won't see it because they'll receive their mail in Plain Text Only
(like I do). My senders don't get to choose the format my messages I
receive.

 

[megan]

this seems like a lot of effort to just send an email! We are running
Outlook 2003 at work and only 1 department is having a problem with
their embedded images in their signature. They are using Outlook off
one of our servers, not off their local computer (I know, not good but
that's how they run).

I'd appreciate any suggestions as to why embedded images aren't
working. It is something that we definitely need fixed...