Outlook 2007: Signature?

[Abel MacAdam]

Hi,

Recently I switched to Outlook 2007 from 2002. In earlier versions of
Outlook you had the possibility to start an external editor to create a
signature. I miss that feature sorely now.

My company prescribes a format for the signature that is difficult to
emulate. I tried to solve it by making the signature in Word. I defined a
special style, containing tree tabs to place words on a line. In the end I
had something like
My Company-------Telephone:------+31555345666
My Street 10-------Fax:--------------+31555345999
My City-------------Web:-------------http://www.myweb.org

I used dashes (-) to simulate what I wanted to accomplish with the tabs. But
my appoarch does not work. The alternative I have is use a table without
borders to place everything. But that has the drawback that if you hover over
the borders you get that boxed cross [+].

Anyway, does anyone know of an alternative I can use to make a nice signature?

TIA,
Abel

 

[Pat Willener]

- Use a fixed-size font such as Courier New.
- Use non-breaking space characters (  or  , or copy and paste
0xA0 from the Character Map) to fill in the spaces.

Tabs are not supported under HTML, so you will have to use tables or
non-breaking spaces.

 

[Abel MacAdam]

Hi Pat,

Thanks for your input. The non-breaking spaces does not help me. The
"columns" are all over the place. So I think I have to go back to using the
table.

Abel

- Use a fixed-size font such as Courier New.
- Use non-breaking space characters ( or , or copy and paste
0xA0 from the Character Map) to fill in the spaces.

Tabs are not supported under HTML, so you will have to use tables or
non-breaking spaces.

Hi,

Recently I switched to Outlook 2007 from 2002. In earlier versions of
Outlook you had the possibility to start an external editor to create a
signature. I miss that feature sorely now.

My company prescribes a format for the signature that is difficult to
emulate. I tried to solve it by making the signature in Word. I defined a
special style, containing tree tabs to place words on a line. In the end I
had something like
My Company-------Telephone:------+31555345666
My Street 10-------Fax:--------------+31555345999
My City-------------Web:-------------http://www.myweb.org

I used dashes (-) to simulate what I wanted to accomplish with the tabs. But
my appoarch does not work. The alternative I have is use a table without
borders to place everything. But that has the drawback that if you hover over
the borders you get that boxed cross [+].

Anyway, does anyone know of an alternative I can use to make a nice signature?

TIA,
Abel

 

[Pat Willener]

Regarding tables; you mentioned earlier that it would show [+] in the
corners. I don't think that this will happen in the final signature
(only during the design stage).

Regarding non-breaking spaces; make sure that the font size is the same
as with the surrounding text. AND a fixed-width font, of course.

Hi Pat,

Thanks for your input. The non-breaking spaces does not help me. The
"columns" are all over the place. So I think I have to go back to using the
table.

Abel

- Use a fixed-size font such as Courier New.
- Use non-breaking space characters ( or , or copy and paste
0xA0 from the Character Map) to fill in the spaces.

Tabs are not supported under HTML, so you will have to use tables or
non-breaking spaces.

Hi,

Recently I switched to Outlook 2007 from 2002. In earlier versions of
Outlook you had the possibility to start an external editor to create a
signature. I miss that feature sorely now.

My company prescribes a format for the signature that is difficult to
emulate. I tried to solve it by making the signature in Word. I defined a
special style, containing tree tabs to place words on a line. In the end I
had something like
My Company-------Telephone:------+31555345666
My Street 10-------Fax:--------------+31555345999
My City-------------Web:-------------http://www.myweb.org

I used dashes (-) to simulate what I wanted to accomplish with the tabs. But
my appoarch does not work. The alternative I have is use a table without
borders to place everything. But that has the drawback that if you hover over
the borders you get that boxed cross [+].

Anyway, does anyone know of an alternative I can use to make a nice signature?

TIA,
Abel

 

[frier]

Hi,

Recently I switched to Outlook 2007 from 2002. In earlier versions of
Outlook you had the possibility to start an external editor to create a
signature. I miss that feature sorely now.

My company prescribes a format for the signature that is difficult to
emulate. I tried to solve it by making the signature in Word. I defined a
special style, containing tree tabs to place words on a line. In the end I
had something like
My Company-------Telephone:------+31555345666
My Street 10-------Fax:--------------+31555345999
My City-------------Web:-------------http://www.myweb.org

I used dashes (-) to simulate what I wanted to accomplish with the tabs. But
my appoarch does not work. The alternative I have is use a table without
borders to place everything. But that has the drawback that if you hover over
the borders you get that boxed cross [+].

Anyway, does anyone know of an alternative I can use to make a nice signature?

TIA,
Abel

Get inspired here:
http://www.emailsignature.eu/phpBB2/outlook-email-signature-templates-f14.html

Then test your design here:
http://www.emailsignature.eu/phpBB2/email-signature-design-testing-t1215.html

Cheers,
Jesper