Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Logos in Outlook signature blocks

Every once in a while my project list picks up a random task. Since I have worked in several marketing departments, we often receive requests that blur the line between marketing and IT. Generally, that's not a problem. This time I need some assistance.

A recent suggestion was to create a consistent signature block for our employees which includes the company logo. It's easy enough to insert a logo into Outlook's signature block, but oftentimes, that logo will appear as an attachment in our clients' inboxes. One of the issues I am facing is that some of our staff uses Outlook 2007, but most are still using 2003.

Does anyone have a solution to remedy this problem?
Tags:  work
5 Comments
_DELETED_hayley
1) Hi Bill,

I decided a few months ago that my company, too, needed unified signatures. I wanted to put a logo, but it comes up as an attachment. There is no way to avoid it - even if you figure out how to make it appear automatically in Outlook, it maybe appear as an attachment by other email servers...like Gmail.

I work with many soft/hardware engineers...this was confirmed.
Hayley   Thursday, July 31, 2008
billpearch
2) I did find this online, but I cannot seem to make this work:

http://adventuresofanitmanager.blogspot.com/2007/10/ext...
Bill   Thursday, July 31, 2008
gotshoo
3) Are you creating a template in Exchange or giving instructions to your users?
shoo   Thursday, July 31, 2008
billpearch
4) Honestly, I could go either way.
Bill   Thursday, July 31, 2008
moobi
5) This is a strange coincidence. I noticed a file called "image002.emz" or something attached to an email a co-worker sent me. I thought it was odd since I checked with her and she said she hadn't attached anything. A short Google later, and I figured out that it had to do with the little company logo in her signature.

I haven't tried to unify our signatures or anything, but one thought I have is to make sure everyone is composing as HTML and have them include the company logo via the tag. No idea is that'll work. If it DOES work, then if the logo gets tweaked or redesigned, you just replace that image on the server.
Moobi   Thursday, July 31, 2008
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