This FAQ article is completely devoted to answer questions heard most often when using images in a signature. Continue reading: Using images in Signatures
Add Instant Messaging links to your Signature
Common signatures include a greeting, your name, your company name and possibly a website address and a phone number. Since a lot more contact is being done via the Internet with Instant Messaging (IM) clients, such as Windows Live Messenger and Skype, you can also add special links which will allow the receiver to directly contact you via one of those methods as well.
With the use of recognizable icons, you can easily include these references without making your signature look huge.
This guide starts off with an example of a signature which is small but contains several instant communication links as well. After that, an overview is given of the instant communication links that can be used with commonly used IM clients. These overviews also contain a suggested icon for the service which you can use in your signature. Continue reading: Add Instant Messaging links to your Signature
Images resize and become unsharp upon sending
When inserting an image into the message body or using it in your signature, the image can unexpectedly change in size and/or become unsharp when sending even when it still looked sharp when composing.
The cause of this issue lies in the way handles image dimensions in combination with its dpi value.
This guide contains several solutions and workarounds to this issues. Continue reading: Images resize and become unsharp upon sending
Updated guide: Creating, using and managing Signatures
The popular How To guide “Creating, using and managing Signatures” has been rewritten completely and now includes more details, screenshots and tips for working with the signature feature.
The guide not only contains the basics, but also give tips on how you can make your Plain Text version of your signature look better and include Internet images (like a corporate logo) in your signature to keep your message small.
Many other signature topics are discussed as well such as automatic signature switching, backing up your signatures and how to include an image in your signature when using Outlook Web Access (OWA).
As there is even more to this seemingly small and simple feature, especially when it comes to using images, I’m doing a series this week covering 3 additional topics regarding signatures. At the end of the week, creating and managing your own stylish signature should go effortless!
Quick Tips for week 35
This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;
Printing calendar with appointment times
Changing the background of a Business Card
Quick Tip Highlights;
Changing Calendar size in Navigation Pane
Sync via USB drive
Importing from Outlook Express or Windows Mail on Windows 7
August Hotfixes for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010
New Hotfixes have been released for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010.
Outlook 2007
This hotfix contains 12 fixes. A notable fix for Outlook 2007 is a fix regarding to printing monthly calendars and words being cut-off incorrectly and split over 2 lines.
For the full list of solved issues see KB2276479
Outlook 2010
This hotfix contains 9 fixes. A notable fix for Outlook 2010 is to solve an issue where the folder list to become unsorted and folder locations changing.
For the full list of solved issues see KB2281463
Language specific hotfixes
In addition to the language generic hotfix, the following language hotfixes have also been released;
KB2308912: Update for the German version of Outlook 2007 (de-de)
KB2266428: Update for the Danish version of Outlook 2010 (da-dk)
KB2345346: Update for the German version of Outlook 2010 (de-de)
Obtaining the hotfixes
Since these are hotfixes and not regular updates, you won’t be offered this update via Microsoft Update but will have to request it. You can do this at the information page of each hotfix.
If you are not (seriously) effected by any of these issues, it is recommended to wait for the next Service Pack or regular Rollup Update which will most likely contain all these fixes as well.
