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