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I need help with my auto signature and why my emails when I go to reply are only in bold?

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I can not get my auto-signature to look normal. Every time now that I go to reply to an email it bolds the entire email. Can you please help? Thank you

I can not get my auto-signature to look normal. Every time now that I go to reply to an email it bolds the entire email. Can you please help? Thank you

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If the font is important then you may have to do the whole thing as an image. Email cannot guarantee to display in your chosen font; your chosen font may not be installed or available on the recipient's machine and in any case the recipient may override or ignore your font settings.

You say you have tried "every option" but that doesn't tell us what you have, and more importantly, have not tried.

Again, how did you create your signature?

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How did you create your signature?

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I have tried to every option but all I want is for it to be our font and logo. I don't know how to code and all the youtube videos look like that is the way to do it.

I have attached a copy. Is there a way to do this?

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If the font is important then you may have to do the whole thing as an image. Email cannot guarantee to display in your chosen font; your chosen font may not be installed or available on the recipient's machine and in any case the recipient may override or ignore your font settings.

You say you have tried "every option" but that doesn't tell us what you have, and more importantly, have not tried.

Again, how did you create your signature?

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I tried in signature text and attach signature in jpg.

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Did you get my previous attachement? Can you give me on instructions on how to make it look similar to that?

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I'm not sure how I'm falling to make my point. Email includes requests to use a particular font or perhaps a broad class of font. Typically, a Windows user might just ask for Arial. That's about as much control regular email gives you. If you hand-edit the HTML code, you can name alternatives and also the broad class. So you might name Arial, Helvetica and sans-serif. Now, Arial and Helvetica are not exactly interchangeable, but by naming both, you're in with a better chance of getting what you want on a greater number of systems. It's possible that some of your recipients are not using Windows, and those using macs or Linux may not have Arial.

Now, you have chosen one particular font. Have you done any research to discover how widespread it is, and if it is installed or even available on other computing platforms?

If the font matters, then you need to present the whole signature as a graphic. Then it can only appear as you sent it. But your email messages will become bigger. Your messages, or at least the signature component, may be blocked by aggressive security software that prohibits binary attachments. You may annoy recipients by sending large attachments that fill up their inboxes and make identification of real attachments more painful. You may also annoy them by presenting your contact information in a form that can't be simply copy-and-pasted. They have to read and re-type your particulars.

I'd say that you should use a mix of text and image, and accept that the font can't be guaranteed. Whatever font you use, there is a chance that a recipient won't have it, or chooses to assert his own preference, perhaps to suit demands of poor eyesight. (I, for one, don't much like serif fonts on screens, so my email is presented in sans-serif by default.)

As for the logo, you want it crisp and sharp. Png or gif, but not jpeg. Jpeg looks smudgy and amateurish.

Send me an email, with the signature attached or included and I can look it over and possibly make a suggestion to help you with it.

xenos at gmx dot co dot uk

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