| Outlook 2007 Email Issues | | | | |
| | | | Previous to Outlook 2007, there were 2 |
| For those of you creating and sending email | | | | different rendering engines for Outlook; |
| newsletters there are some changes to the way | | | | Internet Explorer (IE) was for reading the |
| Outlook 2007 will display your newsletters. | | | | email content and Word for composing |
| Most Outlook users are probably still using a | | | | messages. So Microsoft decided to be |
| previous version but that will be changing | | | | consistent and use Word for both reading and |
| soon. Here are some of the changes to Outlook | | | | composing. This meant a loss of support for |
| 2007. | | | | styling that was there for IE and causes |
| | | | adjustments to be made to try and keep the |
| - Limited or no support for background images | | | | look of email newsletters consistent across |
| and background colors. These will be stripped | | | | various email programs. If you're using |
| out or won't display consistently, so if | | | | images you'll still want to make sure you use |
| you're used to using either, you'll want to | | | | captions in case the images aren't displayed. |
| adjust. | | | | This was the case in Outlook 2003. For |
| | | | newsletters that are very heavy with images, |
| - No support for forms. This could be an | | | | it doesn't leave any message content given |
| embedded survey which will now have to be a | | | | images aren't displayed properly. Cascading |
| link to a form on a website. | | | | style sheets (CSS) support for Outlook 2007 |
| | | | email newsletters have taken a step backward. |
| - Background colors in nested tables won't | | | | For detail about Outlook and Word 2007 HTML |
| display, only the highest level table | | | | and CSS rendering visit |
| background color will be applied. | | | | |
| | | | Remember to test your email newsletters in as |
| - No support for animated gif files. | | | | many email applications as possible to insure |
| | | | that your message is displayed consistently |
| - No support for floats. This is used for | | | | by your recipients. |
| positioning elements. | | | | |