Outlook 2003 HTML signatures

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello,
We're attempting to use an HTML signature that's got the appearance of a
business card, rectangular with the card outlined, a vertical line between
the company logo and the person's name and contact info. There are two
tabs above the card with links for the website and VCF.

It's created in Dreamweaver and works perfectly in Outlook 2007, and looks
fine in the Outlook 2003 signature preview window, on both XP and Vista.

However, in the actual Outlook 2003 email editor, it loses the border, its
aspect is shifted to square and the Arial font on the tabs is ignored and
substituted for something much larger (and it's much worse if Word 2003 is
selected as the email editor) . This behaviour occurs on Outlook 2003
installs whether an Exchange server is involved or not.

The original RTF versions just didn't work at all, appearing as blocks
scattered over two pages, but we've found the MS references explaining that
tables in RTF are not rendered properly in 2003 so we've shifted to plain
text for the RTF signature.

Does anyone have any pointers to resolving this?

thanks,
Patrick Keenan

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you using css for the formatting?

How does the signature look when sent to gmail and similar that are read in
a browser?

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[Patrick Keenan]

Are you using css for the formatting?

How does the signature look when sent to gmail and similar that are read
in a browser?

Thanks for the reply. CSS isn't in use, and in gmail the card looks ok.

However, the overwhelming majority of the mail clients receiving this use
are Outlook, so that's where it needs to display properly.

Thanks again,
Patrick Keenan

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Hello,
We're attempting to use an HTML signature that's got the appearance of a
business card, rectangular with the card outlined, a vertical line
between the company logo and the person's name and contact info. There
are two tabs above the card with links for the website and VCF.

It's created in Dreamweaver and works perfectly in Outlook 2007, and
looks fine in the Outlook 2003 signature preview window, on both XP and
Vista.

However, in the actual Outlook 2003 email editor, it loses the border,
its aspect is shifted to square and the Arial font on the tabs is ignored
and substituted for something much larger (and it's much worse if Word
2003 is selected as the email editor) . This behaviour occurs on
Outlook 2003 installs whether an Exchange server is involved or not.

The original RTF versions just didn't work at all, appearing as blocks
scattered over two pages, but we've found the MS references explaining
that tables in RTF are not rendered properly in 2003 so we've shifted to
plain text for the RTF signature.

Does anyone have any pointers to resolving this?

thanks,
Patrick Keenan