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How to link a signature image to a web page in Outlook 6 signature

I have spent over an hour looking through several posts and cannot find a solution. Assuming it is possible, how do I setup a signature for all outgoing emails in Outllook, that contains both text, such as name, address and phone plus an image that is hyperlinked to a web page without showing the link?

I have an html file both locally and on the server --- one for a signature, if possible, and one for the landing page or hyperlink from the image in the signature.

Stationery is background, so that doesn't seem to be the way to go.
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Put the HTML in your Signature Setup in Outlook, you have to select it as such though.
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I tried that. The Signature options are Text and Image. If I paste html in the Text field, I just get html code in the email message. If I select Image and select the html file on my local machine, it just shows the html file as a link in the message when that Signature is selected. Same thing if I insert the absolute URL of the web page in the Image option field of the Signature setup panel.

What I did not do was send a message with the html in the sig, assuming the sent message would look the same as it did when I composed it in Outlook.
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I tried linking the html in a new signature setup and it worked. Thanks.
One important step to place a hyperlinked graphic in an email signature.

The image in the html must NOT be in the background, from what I have found. It must be in the a tag like <a href="absolute-path-to-page-the-image-links-to.html"><img src="absolute path to the image on the web server or on your computer"></a>

Please confirm or correct me or expand on this for the benefit of others. Thanks.

Hello  weknowjack,

>> web server or on your computer
Needs to be Web Server, the graphic, like a corporate graphic needs to be on a Web Server for HTML Linking so that the recipients of your email can access it through their internet connection,  otherwise users outside your firewall will only get a "Graphics Placeholder"

http://photobucket.com/
There are web servers SITES like PHOTOBUCKET for INDIVIDUALS to host graphics in their OWN online account... and link to the GRAPHICS in their email signatures.

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