Problems with Outlook 2007 Email Signatures

[George McCoy]

I've been using signatures with Outlook in Outlook 2000, XP and 2003 without
many problems. There are a few quirks I notice when using Outlook 2007 Beta
Technical Refresh with email signatures. If anyone has any suggestions please
reply to this thread. BTW, I use Word 2007 for my email editor.

After composing a signature using Outlook 2007's signature editor that contains
a local graphic (GIF) and using it in an email, the email will show the words
"The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory
to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted...". This is only
a problem when composing the message. The signature with graphic displays
fine after it has been sent to the reciepent. If I include myself it also
displays fine after it is in my inbox. Using a remote graphic (pointing
the source to a http: URL) seems to be just fine.

When composing or recieving animated GIFs in signatures the animation is
not displayed. The same signature sent to an Outlook 2003 account shows
the GIF animation just fine. (In Outlook 2003 there was issue when composing
messages with Word but did not affect viewing the message after it was sent).

Outlook 2007 doesn't seem to have an options for "When an HTML message contains
pictures located on the Internet, send a copy of the pictures instead of
the reference to their location" like there was with previous versions of
Outlook.

Thanks.

Georg

 

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After furious head scratching, George McCoy asked:

| I've been using signatures with Outlook in Outlook 2000, XP and 2003
| without many problems. There are a few quirks I notice when using
| Outlook 2007 Beta Technical Refresh with email signatures. If anyone
| has any suggestions please reply to this thread. BTW, I use Word
| 2007 for my email editor.
|

No, you don't - Outlook 2007 does not have an option to use Word. Instead,
it uses a special .dll file to grant Outlook many, but not all, of the
abilities of Word.

| After composing a signature using Outlook 2007's signature editor
| that contains a local graphic (GIF) and using it in an email, the
| email will show the words "The image cannot be displayed. Your
| computer may not have enough memory
| to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted...". This is
| only
| a problem when composing the message. The signature with graphic
| displays fine after it has been sent to the reciepent. If I include
| myself it also displays fine after it is in my inbox. Using a remote
| graphic (pointing
| the source to a http: URL) seems to be just fine.
|
| When composing or recieving animated GIFs in signatures the animation
| is
| not displayed. The same signature sent to an Outlook 2003 account
| shows
| the GIF animation just fine. (In Outlook 2003 there was issue when
| composing messages with Word but did not affect viewing the message
| after it was sent).
|
| Outlook 2007 doesn't seem to have an options for "When an HTML
| message contains pictures located on the Internet, send a copy of the
| pictures instead of
| the reference to their location" like there was with previous
| versions of Outlook.
|
| Thanks.
|
| George

 

[George McCoy]

No, you don't - Outlook 2007 does not have an option to use Word.

Instead, it uses a special .dll file to grant Outlook many, but not
all, of the abilities of Word.

Ok, I stand corrected -- I'm not using Word for my email editor. Thanks
for clearing that up.