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Create a signature with a picture in it

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It's possible to create a custom signature in Outlook with a picture. Be careful, young Jedi... this can be abused (I have seen several signatures with dynamic graphics that move around as you read the mail. Horribly distracting.) But sometimes it's appropriate. When I send blogging-related mails to my team from now on, I will be using the new signature I just created:

I also ordered a “MAPI makes me HAPI“ mug from the cafepress store and it arrived yesterday, it's quite nifty! As was the onesie for my son, he's not quite big enough for it yet but I'm looking forward to showing off my little geek[1] in that shirt at the MVP summit in April. The mug has been a conversation starter here, and we've got some other great ideas for slogans that we're working on (such as a series about “The email administrator's worst nightmare“, where each slogan covers a different nightmare).

Aaaanyway, I figured it was time for something Outlook related, so here's a tip on how to add a picture to your signature, and how to make that work even if the picture is on your local machine:

1. Go to Tools | Options | Mail Format | Internet Settings and check “When an HTML message contains pictures located on the Internet, send a copy of the pictures instead of the reference to their location“.[2]
2. In Tools | Options | Mail Format, click the Signatures button
3. Click New
4. Name it and click Next
5. Click Advanced Edit (which for me launches notepad)
6. Add the reference to the picture of your choice with said editor, it's OK if it's on your local machine
7. OK out of everything and then send yourself a mail

[1] He'll either follow in his parents' footsteps and be a geek, or he'll go 180 degrees away into something like music (although I don't mean to imply that geeks can't be musicians). I'm happy either way - I secretely harbor a fear of the day that He Knows More About Computers Than Me.
[2] When you receive it and view the source, you'll see that the IMG SRC points at a CID of an attachment to the message. This is because you checked the box in step 1. See more details in my previous blog entry describing that setting in all my rambling glory.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2004
    I look forward to seeing both of you at the MVP summit in April.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    I have an excellent DHTML signature with scrolling text if anyone is interested...

    We're not allowed to use it at work as we have to have plain sigs :(
  • Anonymous
    March 28, 2004
    hi
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2004
    Tsy manadino anao.
  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2004
    can u create a signature fo TengB
  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2004
    create it
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    I want to create my picture in my Mail
  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    I would like my signature to join.

    The J should intersect the P.
  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2004
    how do I do this.....
  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2004
    The comment has been removed