My Outlook reply signature is pale yellow; how can I change it?

[Brian B.]

Somehow, my Outlook signature got changed to a pale yellow font that is
almost invisible on a white background. I have made numerous attempts to
change it, which I can do for each individual 'new' or 'reply' message, but
how can I change it permanently? My operating system is Windows XP Media,
and Office Proffesional 2003. I use Word as my Outlook editor.

Thanks in advance, Brian B.

 

[Idaho Word Man]

There are a number of ways to change it permanently. The easiest is probably
just to create a new message and edit the signature as you want. Then select
the modified signature and click on the little down arrow next to the Options
menu on your toolbar. Select E-Mail Signature, and an E-mail Options window
will open. TYPE the name of your e-mail signature (don't select it from the
list) and select "Replace." That should fix it permanently.

If that doesn't work, close the new message and go to your inbox. Select
Tools - Options - Mail Format - Signatures. Then select the signature you
want to change and select Edit and then Advanced Edit. You'll get a notice
that says, "This will launch an editor that is not part of Microsoft Office
Outlook. Do you want to continue?" Click yes. Your signature will open and
you can edit it. When you're done, save it.

I hope this helps.

Fred

 

[Brian B.]

Hi Fred, and thanks for these suggestions. I tried them both, (which I had
done before I posted my problem), but I still have the same situation
whenever I start a new Outlook message, or reply to a message.

Here is a little more background information. Yesterday, before this
problem developed, I was using a blue font color for my Outlook messages, and
I wanted to change it to navy so it was a little darker but would still be
different from the typical black font that most messages are composed in. I
made the color change by way of the Outlook ‘Tools/Options/Mail
Format/Fonts/Choose Font’ process, and then the next time I went to reply to
or compose a new message, I noticed that my signature had changed not only to
a very pale yellow, but also it’s position on the page and the line spacing
had changed. I noticed this because I always compose with the ‘paragraph’
option active, and so I noticed immediately that instead of my signature
being at the top left of the composition window, there were two paragraph
marks double line spaced apart, and then my pale yellow signature also double
line spaced (it has always been blue and single line space before), and then
there was one more paragraph mark double line spaced below my pale yellow
signature. When I highlight the pale yellow signature text, and then click
on Tools/Reveal Formatting, in the right side of the window I get the various
formatting information for my signature selection, which not surprisingly
shows the font as ‘pale yellow’, and the spacing shows as ‘After: Auto’, and
when I click on ‘Spacing’, the window that opens is titled ‘Paragraph’, and
shows the Outline level is ‘Body Text’, and the Spacing is ‘Before: 0 pt’,
‘After: Auto’, and ‘Line spacing: Single’, with the ‘At’ box empty. I also
notice if I change my signature font color to black so I can see it, that
there is a very small “o†at the top-right of the last character of the
second line of my signature, and when I highlight the top line of my
signature, the black highlight box area extends upward as though there was
another line of type above the top line of my signature.

I think somehow that I must have inadvertently made some other change to the
formatting via some other method and unless I can figure out what I did I
can’t seem to undo it!

Brian.

 

[grammatim]

You might do better in an Outlook group than in a Word group.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Outlook 2003, click on Tools | Options | Mail Format tab |
Stationery and Fonts: Use this stationery by default: <None> |
OK. Note that "blank" and "none" are not the same thing in this
case.

 

[Brian B.]

Hi Grammatim.

Yes, I agree re the Outlook group. I managed to find a fix after stopping
by my local computer shop; it was the choice of stationary! (see next post
comment).

I thank everyone who has, or will participate in helping me.

 

[Brian B.]

I thank you for that Garfield. Before I saw your post, I stopped in at my
local computer repair shop and within a couple of minutes the tech had made
the stationary change you specify. I guess that I must have somehow changed
it to ‘Blank’ and with that came the formatting that changed my signature.

I thank everyone has, (or still might), post a comment.

Brian B.