Loading...Girl Geek Top Tip: inserting an image into your signature
A small .gif or .jpg above or beside your signature can look quite professional when you’re sending out emails (a large one, however, just looks like you’re a saddo/narcissist).
Different e-mail clients make inserting an image easy, difficult, or nigh impossible. Here are some top tips for the various Microsoft clients, as well as for Google Mail. Woop Woop even Gmail.
Outlook 2007
This is the easiest one. Just select Tools, Options, Mail Format, and then click the Signatures button. The resulting dialog box has an editor into which you can easily insert an image by clicking the picture icon and selecting the image you want. Easy Peasy.
Outlook 2003
Click the New button to create a new message. In that message, design your signature, inserting the image and typing the text. Once the signature looks right, press Ctrl-A to select it, and then Ctrl-C to copy it to the Clipboard. Close the message window without saving it.
Select Tools, Options. Click the Mail Format tab, the Signatures button, and then the New button. Name your signature, select Start with a blank signature, and click Next. In the resulting text box, press Ctrl -V to insert the signature. Save the god darn thing. More time consuming than 2007 version.
Gmail
Oh no, not easy to do it with this one. The Gmail’s editor or its signature tool do not support inserted graphics. Neither does the free Firefox add-in Signature. Booooo.
The solution is easy to set up, but honestly is a bit of a pain in the bum bum to use. Create the signature as a Google Docs document, with both the image and text. When you want to insert it into e-mail, open the document, copy and paste its contents into your message. Oh that’s very streamline Google – not!
PS…
There are a few greasemonkey scripts intended to add HTML signatures to Gmail messages.
