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Damon Birrell
Hi all.
I have never had so many problems with such a simple concept before. I have
deployed new Windowx XP machines with Office 2003 Pro with an SBS 2003
server and want a standard signature without buyng a third party addon for
exchange. I have set everybody's email to HTML format, and use Word as the
editor in each case.
I created a brand new signature in Word, using the signature Advanced Edit,
really basic, with some bold and underlining and nothing else. One
particular user (the boss, incidentally) is having trouble when replying to
emails sent to him, and creating new emails. When he creates an email, the
signature text is fully justified and smeared across the screen. I checked
Word paragraph and normal font settings in the normal.dot template, and they
are set to left justify. I cheked the HTML code and it appears to be
justifed, and changing the styles to left align didnt seem to fix it. OK, so
I create a new, blank HTML file and hand code a new signature without all of
the office tag and other crap that word throws in there. Same bloody
problem. The signature is full justified and looks awful when sending. When
a remote user receives it, it looks ok, but when the remote user hits reply,
the signature changes back to full justify.
In addition, when the user replies to emails, some HTML emails are fine but
other HTML emails become 1.5 spaced, trhoughout the original message and the
new reply component making the whole thing look a mess. Plain text and rich
text replies are ok.
Is there some fooolproof way of creating a signature in Outlook without all
these hassles? It shouldn't have to be a complex myriad of word and outlook
settings and different formats just to get a basic signature at the bottom
of an email.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Damon
I have never had so many problems with such a simple concept before. I have
deployed new Windowx XP machines with Office 2003 Pro with an SBS 2003
server and want a standard signature without buyng a third party addon for
exchange. I have set everybody's email to HTML format, and use Word as the
editor in each case.
I created a brand new signature in Word, using the signature Advanced Edit,
really basic, with some bold and underlining and nothing else. One
particular user (the boss, incidentally) is having trouble when replying to
emails sent to him, and creating new emails. When he creates an email, the
signature text is fully justified and smeared across the screen. I checked
Word paragraph and normal font settings in the normal.dot template, and they
are set to left justify. I cheked the HTML code and it appears to be
justifed, and changing the styles to left align didnt seem to fix it. OK, so
I create a new, blank HTML file and hand code a new signature without all of
the office tag and other crap that word throws in there. Same bloody
problem. The signature is full justified and looks awful when sending. When
a remote user receives it, it looks ok, but when the remote user hits reply,
the signature changes back to full justify.
In addition, when the user replies to emails, some HTML emails are fine but
other HTML emails become 1.5 spaced, trhoughout the original message and the
new reply component making the whole thing look a mess. Plain text and rich
text replies are ok.
Is there some fooolproof way of creating a signature in Outlook without all
these hassles? It shouldn't have to be a complex myriad of word and outlook
settings and different formats just to get a basic signature at the bottom
of an email.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Damon