Outlook 2007 Signature overwrites text

[Guest iggjames]

I have now resolved the problem - this is an undocumented Microsoft

 

"feature" which occurs because (as the help facility will tell you) you

 

can only use one signature in an email. It generally happens if you have

 

default signatures set up. If you create a new email or reply to an

 

email, your default or response signature is inserted automatically. If

 

you then delete that, type in some text and insert a different

 

signature, Outlook has not registered that you have deleted a signature,

 

so it takes your text as being a signature - and replaces it with the

 

new one! Clever, eh?

 

 

 

'Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook Wrote:

 

> 736970']Check your signature to see if you have a leading blank line

 

> or two. If

 

> yes, remove it and see if the signature works better.

 

>

 

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> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

 

>

 

> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

 

> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

>

 

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> After furious head scratching, ianggjames asked:

 

>

 

> | Since upgrading to Outlook 2007 (under XP Pro) I've had an

 

> | intermittent, but frequent problem when I write or reply to an email,

 

> | then insert a signature - and the signature overwrites all the new

 

> | text. I have to "undo", select and copy my text to the clipboard,

 

> | insert the signature first and then paste the text back in. Once

 

> | this happens in any particular email, it is absolutely consistent and

 

> | happens every time but on probably 2 out of 3 emails it's absolutely

 

> | fine. It's not a problem that's cured by reinstalling Outlook , or

 

> | even XP Pro, as I've done both (for other reasons) and I've applied

 

> | all the service packs and other upgrades. It's a really annoying and

 

> | time-wasting problem. Does anyone know how to cure it (apart from

 

> | switching to Mozilla, which I'm tempted to do!)