Outlook: cloudy
May 17, 2011 9:23 AM Subscribe
Trouble with wonky formatting in Outlook email.
I am attempting to send out a newsletter company-wide. It’s nothing fancy, just a few paragraphs with links and Facebook and Twitter logos, also links.
When I compose the message (using Outlook 2003) it looks great. When I send it to myself, Coworker1, or my Gmail account, it looks great and keeps the links and formatting properly.
But when I send it to anyone else, the links all get stripped out, and the images disappear and it’s just a mess of text interspersed with the addresses of the websites I'm linking to.
No matter whether I compose in Rich Text or HTML, it comes across this way on certain coworkers emails. There are several versions of Outlook floating around the office, which might be a contributing factor.
What do I need to do to make sure the email goes through with all hyper-linked text and images intact?
I am attempting to send out a newsletter company-wide. It’s nothing fancy, just a few paragraphs with links and Facebook and Twitter logos, also links.
When I compose the message (using Outlook 2003) it looks great. When I send it to myself, Coworker1, or my Gmail account, it looks great and keeps the links and formatting properly.
But when I send it to anyone else, the links all get stripped out, and the images disappear and it’s just a mess of text interspersed with the addresses of the websites I'm linking to.
No matter whether I compose in Rich Text or HTML, it comes across this way on certain coworkers emails. There are several versions of Outlook floating around the office, which might be a contributing factor.
What do I need to do to make sure the email goes through with all hyper-linked text and images intact?
If all the people "company wide" are on the same server, all using the same email client (Outlook?) then this shouldn't be a problem if you can get it and Coworker1 can get it.
Try: Tools > Options > Mail Format: make sure it's set to HTML.
What I did once when I was having a similar issue was to compose the message in Gmail (I have Insert Picture available but it might be a Labs feature that I'd turned on), email it to my company's email address, and then email it out from there.
posted by thebazilist at 11:25 AM on May 17, 2011
Try: Tools > Options > Mail Format: make sure it's set to HTML.
What I did once when I was having a similar issue was to compose the message in Gmail (I have Insert Picture available but it might be a Labs feature that I'd turned on), email it to my company's email address, and then email it out from there.
posted by thebazilist at 11:25 AM on May 17, 2011
Where are the image which you're linking to? I.e. what server are they on? Are the accessible to people outside your corporate network?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:37 PM on May 17, 2011
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:37 PM on May 17, 2011
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a) send out the newsletter as a PDF attachment
b) send out a plain text newsletter instead of HTML/Rich Text
c) send out a plain text newsletter but include a link to the HTML version hosted on the internet/intranet or a network drive or whatever.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 9:35 AM on May 17, 2011