"Warning: Your signature file is too large."

Try creating your signature in an html editor, such as Frontpage, Expression
Web, or (free) Coffee Cup.

Microsoft Word is ***horrible*** at creating html.

James


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> "MissPhyllis" wrote:
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>> Good evening. I tried to create a signature in Word and safed it as a
>> htm/html file. For some reason I get the message ""Warning: Your
>> signature
>> file is too large." Can you please advise as to what I need to do to
>> condense the file or save it in another format?? Thanks.

I had the same problem; i.e. Microsoft Word complianing that the html
signature file too large in Microsoft Mail package.

I resolved this by:

1. Editting and saving the signature plus picture (company logo) in a
Microsoft Word Doc
2. Then saved it as HTML file (filtered option - its one of the drop downs
in the save as option) - this make the *.html file small (i.e. <4kB as
required by Microsoft Mail). Please note that the html filtered "save as"
option doesn't seem to be availble with Microsoft Works Word Processer, so
you may have to get someone to do this who has Word.
3. At this point the signature loads in Microsoft Mail, but I got a Red
Cross where the picture/logo was meant to be in the signature
4. So I opened File Explorer and opened the html file using either Notepad
or Wordpad editor packages. To do this right click the html file and select
"Open with" option.
5. When you open in Notepad there is a lot of coding garbage, but the trick
is to find the line of code which refers to the image. It will lok something
like "...\documents\signature_files\image001.jpg".
6. Change the file name in the invereted commas to the full path name to
point at the picture file you want, which will be something like
"C:\Users\Name\Documents\logo.jpg".
7. Then the signature loads up perfect.

There must be a bug in Microsoft Mail.

hope this helps.

regards.

"MissPhyllis" wrote:

> Good evening. I tried to create a signature in Word and safed it as a
> htm/html file. For some reason I get the message ""Warning: Your signature
> file is too large." Can you please advise as to what I need to do to
> condense the file or save it in another format?? Thanks.