Of course, if you are an iCreate client reading this, then we’ve done this step for you.Ģ. This article gives a nice introduction to coding HTML emails. Unfortunately, most email clients do not support modern HTML and CSS, so we need to do this the old-fashioned way, with lots of nested tables and inline styles. The only reliable way we’ve found to get your signature right in Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016 is with the below steps. In theory, this Office specific code should probably be ignored by other renderers of HTML, but in practice, it can result in the signature displaying in unexpected ways on some devices or email applications. Even if you paste a few lines of nice clean HTML into it, Word won’t be able to help itself from adding hundreds of lines of MS Office gobbledygook to the HTML.
CREATE EMAIL SIGNATURE IN OUTLOOK FULL
Why? If you’re interested in the tech details: I don’t know the full answer, but it is basically because Outlook uses MS Word as it’s editor, and Word is famously very bad at generating HTML.
…But for some very strange reason Outlook, an email program that has been around since the beginning of time makes a bit more difficult. You simply go the aforementioned webpage with the signature, select all (ctrl+A), copy then paste it into Gmail.
CREATE EMAIL SIGNATURE IN OUTLOOK INSTALL
To take that signature and install on most webmail clients like Gmail it’s easy. The benefits of this are twofold: 1 it’s easily accessible, and 2 any images in the signature are hosted online and will be downloaded from here by those receiving your emails. When these are designed and approved, we deliver the shiny end product by conveniently putting the HTML on a blank web page. Having a great-looking signature is important for the consistent application of your brand, and as such iCreate regularly creates email signatures for our clients. This article is both for iCreate clients as a how-to guide, and anyone else that is having difficulting with HTML Signatures vs Outlook and stumbles across this tech tip.