Devesh Mistry’s Blog - Random Ramblings
So you’ve upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 but have the urge to modify your HTML signature in your Outlook?
Unfortunately you cannot seem to find any option in the editor tools to be able to “hand-modify” your signature. All that’s available is just the default signature creator :(
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Well, there’s a solution handy :)
Create a dummy signature using the signature editor available in Outlook. Once done, hit save and simply browse to:
C:\Documents & settings\[your username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures
(In Vista business your can find it under: C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures)
and voila - you can see your signature file there ;)
Fire up your favourite HTML editor and modify it.
Save it, shut it, fire up your Outlook, create a new email message and adore your new, custom signature you just created.
:)
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Sathya
June 17th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Nice! You sure about Outlook 2007 not being able to modify the siggies? This feature is there in Outlook 2003(albeit in a very rudimentary fashion) but still a signature editor *is* there, can’t imagine MS missing out that one.
Anyways, thanks for the tip!
Devesh
June 17th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
@Sathya: Oh it’s there - but it’s just a basic editor. And there’s no way to manually modify the HTML - the older versions of Outlook provided an ability to modify the HTML file from within the interface (like click here to open an external editor) - but 07 doesn’t and therefore this post :)
Neil
July 4th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Yes - the reason i believe is so it can easily create rich text format and plain text format versions automatically. If you manually edit the html version, the RTF files will probably still look like the original you created, and plain text the same!