How do I reset signature font so it stays in Outlook 2003???

[MrGearhead]

Using Win XP, Office 2003.

In my signature font, I have my email address as the first line of the
signature.

This line is blue, bolded, arial underlined. The remaining info (job title,
phone, fax, etc) are all regular green text. It's been this way for 3 years.

A few days ago, for whatever reason, the email address in my signature now
shows up as magenta, bolded, arial, underlined. The color for this line has
changed from blue (right) to magenta (wrong). The green text below this line
is still green.

When I go to the signature change screen under Tool>>Options, the signature
does have a magenta (wrong color) for the email adress. It appears as
"custom" under the font color drop box. When I chosse blue to overide, it
still displays as magenta. It's not letting me force it to blue like it's
been.

I suspect this has to do with how Hypertext is defaulted in Outlook...
Perhaps this was updated on a recent update?

Anyone knwo what's going on?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It sounds like you have clicked the link once. Then it is in your Internet's
History and visited links show differently. It should still look the way you
want it for the receivers (unless they've also visited the link). Have you
asked them to verify?

Otherwise you'll have to look at the HTML code of your signature to find out
which color has been assigned there.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Did you ever click on it? It sounds like its using the visited link color
for it.

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[MrGearhead]

Okay... So it sounds like I must have clicked on my own signature at some
point recently... I can believe that...

And... it appears that others will see the right color (blue), unless
they've clicked on the link???

So, that begs a few questions:

1) How do I reset the color to blue? I can understand why the link may
have changed color for the session I had that doc open, but after that... it
should be blue until clicked again 9or at least blue until Outlook is
restarted).

If it stays magenta forever and always hereon out, then that just seems like
bad programming.

2) If someone else clicks on the link, I assume it turns the color that
THEY have THEIR Outlook set to for the "change color of links once clicked
setting"...???

Where is that setting?

3) I suppose I could change that setting to "change" to blue (even though
it already is blue). That would keep the color right on at least my machine.
Would that work??? And... Is there any other way to "trick" Outlook 2003
to work like I need it to? I like the idea of changing colors of links I've
seen when browsing, but it doesn't make much sense in the context of an email
link in a signature. Is there a way to have it always stay blue no matter if
I and/or a recipient clicks the email link???

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It's is not an Outlook thing but a Windows/IE thing.
Clearing your IE history would reset it. In your Internet options you can
also set your default color for visited and not visited links.
You can overrule these for your signature by using CSS and define the color
settings for the various iterations of the <a ...> tag (hover, visited,
etc...).