Additional Characters Added to Outlook signature

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ben.s.carlson

Outlook is adding the following characters to the beginning of my
signature (hopefully they display) :



It does not seem to matter what font or encoding I'm using, or how
simple my signature is (even a signature of "Ben Carlson" will produce
the characters).

Several other people have had this problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=1#89fd7596d17e8ac0
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=2#b919a08685c8f0e3
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=3#db3e56bd40729a87
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=4#79db73a0d4ead953
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=5#46105fe78a191a07
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=6#6a3743137be01bb1
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=7#388c28524c726ffc

But I've yet to see a solution. Can anybody help?

Thank you,

Ben Carlson
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

does it happen on Html and plaintext? are you using word as your editor?

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Outlook is adding the following characters to the beginning of my
signature (hopefully they display) :



It does not seem to matter what font or encoding I'm using, or how
simple my signature is (even a signature of "Ben Carlson" will produce
the characters).

Several other people have had this problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=1#89fd7596d17e8ac0
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=2#b919a08685c8f0e3
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=3#db3e56bd40729a87
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=4#79db73a0d4ead953
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=5#46105fe78a191a07
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=6#6a3743137be01bb1
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...=signature+characters&rnum=7#388c28524c726ffc

But I've yet to see a solution. Can anybody help?

Thank you,

Ben Carlson
 
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zy_leow

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At "Edit Signature", click on "Advanced Edit..."
In the "Convert File" dialog box, select "Plain Text".

For me, I saw something like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>zy Signature</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5848" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV align=left>*</DIV></BODY></HTML>

So just delete the  at the front and save. That should get rid of those characters.
Hope this helps someone.
 

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