Outlook Signature not formatting properly

[James Bond]

I've had this problem for a while now, and its really bugging me:

In outlook, I have a custom signature. If I send an email to someone else within our internal server, the signature is formated fine...but if I send the email out (to gmail, etc), it there will an extra carriage return in between each line..

Instead of looking like this:

Name
Position
Email
Website

it comes out like this:

Name

Position

Email

Website

Anyone know how to solve this??

 

[mzinZ]

Bump

Does anyone actually have a signature that works properly?

 

[John]

Create a new signature in Word, Dreamweaver, etc. and save it as .html. Now when you go to the Outlook signature options to create a new sig you should choose use file as a template, then browse for the sig you just created and add it.

 

[Joemonkey]

or, go into the signature editor, at the end of each line hit the delete key (this gets rid of the Word line break) and then hit Ctrl+ENTER to put a single line break

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
or, go into the signature editor, at the end of each line hit the delete key (this gets rid of the Word line break) and then hit Ctrl+ENTER to put a single line break

That didn't work for me. Hitting CTRL+ENTER did nothing. Any clue why?

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: John
Create a new signature in Word, Dreamweaver, etc. and save it as .html. Now when you go to the Outlook signature options to create a new sig you should choose use file as a template, then browse for the sig you just created and add it.

That didn't work for me either. I loaded the .html file perfectly (keep in mind that when I load it in Outlook, it looks normal). I then sent a test email outbound--in my Outlook outbox, it shows that it was formatted correctly, but when I check my Gmail, it has the extra space...

Any more help would be great

 

[wheresmybacon]

I thought it was SHIFT+Enter...

I have this problem too but don't have any external mail access here at work and I'm just too damn lazy to test it...

Try SHIFT+Enter for line breaks and see if that does anything.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: hungfarover
I thought it was SHIFT+Enter...

I have this problem too but don't have any external mail access here at work and I'm just too damn lazy to test it...

Try SHIFT+Enter for line breaks and see if that does anything.

IT WORKED!
After 6 months of trying, it finally works.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Well time for me to implement my own fix then! Thanks for verifying.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: hungfarover
I thought it was SHIFT+Enter...

I have this problem too but don't have any external mail access here at work and I'm just too damn lazy to test it...

Try SHIFT+Enter for line breaks and see if that does anything.

IT WORKED!
After 6 months of trying, it finally works.

Yes, both suggestions will fix the problem, with the 2nd one being easier. However since you had a problem with the .html suggestion you could try shift+enter for the line breaks in it as well, heh.

 

[Joemonkey]

DOH!! SHIFT+Enter is right, sorry

When the signature is parsed through html or rtf the extra line break does not appear, only if it is through Plain Text