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I created a HTML template that I want to get into an email so it can be sent out, but how does one do this? I have Outlook 2016 and research I had read before with Outlook 2013 and below you could 'insert text' instead of the linked file, but Outlook have removed this.
I would be willing to use another program in order to get it into an email for sending out as a newsletter, so it doesnt need to be outlook.
By the way I wasnt sure what part of StackExchange to post this in, so I hope I have posted it in the right one.
Many thanks.
For me worked worked following to add functionality - File attach "Insert as Text" into Outlook 2016:
What if you want Outlook 2016 to behave like Outlook 2013 and earlier? Well, the Attach File with the dropdown is not customizable directly, but you can add an old-style Attach File button. To do this, start a new email, right-click the toolbar, and click Customize the Ribbon. Right-click the New Mail Message section on the right, and choose Add new group. Then select the Attach File command on the left, and the new group on the right, and click Add. I have called my new group Custom:
The effect is that you now have two Attach File commands, one of which behaves just like Outlook 2013:
Outlook 2016 still does have the classic attach file button with insert as text, you just need to do a little work to get it (http://www.msoutlook.info/question/classic-attach-file-button)
My recommendation for inserting HTML into a desktop client would be Thunderbird (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/). Outlook rewrites the email HTML before sending it out, which usually removes all media queries and can sometimes otherwise warp your display. Thunderbird uses a much friendlier engine and will allow your HTML to stay the same as it would on any popular Email Service Provider (such as SalesForce Marketing Cloud). Thunderbird has the option to literally "Insert HTML". This allows you to directly paste your HTML code and it populates in the editor.
For mail merge, you will need this add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/), which I actually find better than what you get in Outlook.
Finally, I just wanted to make sure that you are meeting CAN-SPAM compliance on your email newsletter as it is considered a commercial email and want you to avoid potential fines (up to $10,000 per email). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003)
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I want to know if there are ways to customise the outlook (2013) mail exchange client. Ultimately, I want to, if possible, have an extra field when viewing the mail, e.g. after received time, a field called 'category'.. user selects from dropdown, sales or other. Ultimate I'd want to be able to add the value to the extended property of the mailitem object. I have experience using Exchange Web Services and coding in C# and Java but have no idea if the above is possible (custoomising the outlook interface, not just menu customisation) and if so what languages/tool are best used.
Any suggestions apopreciated.
Sure, you can do that. But you can use built-in Outlook categories (which you can extend by adding your own ones).
My partner and I created a custom task form to be used in Outlook using the developer mode to do that, and we published it to the Organization Forms Library for anyone to open. We're running into issues that I personally can't seem to find on how to resolve:
Custom forms aren't syncing correctly.
When I complete out the custom form, and I assign it to someone else they might be missing details like the dates I picked from the date picker, and text within the text box are gone too. It's very odd that sometimes some would get all the details that an end-user would input but that's like a 1/8 chance. I feel like there's a disconnect where it just won't behave like any other task. Cache mode or no cache mode doesn't matter it seems. When the person assigns it back with changes made on their end, those changes aren't seen on my side. I just have the same original details that I made when I first made it. We're on Exchange Server 2010.
Looks like a custom form was not published correctly to others in the organization. Try to create a new Outlook item on other machines with your custom forms to make sure they were deployed correctly.
Note, message forms default to separate layouts for composing and reading. Many people find their first message form doesn't look right when they receive an item created with it. That's simply because they forgot to click the Edit Read Page button and customize the Read layout!
You may find the Customizing Outlook Message Forms article helpful.
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I am trying to find a efficient way for our users to email multiple contacts within CRM with a custom email (no templates) on demand.
After playing around with it for a long time, I came up with the following:
Create a custom view under "Contacts" that holds the group you want to email.
Select one of the contacts, go to the "Add" tab, and select "Email"
Click the search box beside "To" and fill out the popup with the following:
Look for: "Contact"
View: "-The name of your custom view from step 1-"
Select all of the contacts in the view
Click "Add"
Click "OK"
Complete the email and send it
However, this is not efficient and would confuse our users. I am looking for a better solution to email multiple users at once within CRM or to dynamically pull contacts from CRM and put them in a distribution list in Outlook 2013 (probably not even possible).
Assuming that you are sending to Contacts, Leads, or Accounts:
Select all records on the view that has been set up for this purpose with the top left checkbox
Click the Add Tab above the Ribbon
Click Quick Campaign -> For All Records on All Pages
Use the Wizard, ensuring that "Mark Email Messages to be Sent" is checked
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I need to add a custom search engine to Firefox. I have a name and a search URL. How do I add those to the available search providers?
If you are just trying to search a certain site from the address bar, you do not have to create any OpenSearch XML.
You can add a bookmark with %s as a placeholder, and give it a keyword. The subsequent search terms will fill into the placeholder. For an example that searches Stack Overflow, put these fields into a "New Bookmark:"
Field
Value
Name
Search Stack Overflow
Location
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s
Tags
development (your relevant tags)
Keyword
so
Description
To perform a search, type so How to exit Vim into the address bar and hit return.
If you have also added search engines in Chrome, you will recognize the same %s placeholder that is used in chrome://settings/searchEngines. I do not know, but it may be that Chrome also uses bookmarks like Firefox under the hood.
Here are the steps:
Create an XML file containing information about your search engine like ShortName, Description, URL, etc. (Example file)
Give a name to that XML file and put it in one of these files:
Available just to you
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXXX.default\searchplugins
Available to anyone on the computer
%PROGRAM_FILES%\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
Modify Firefox's preferences file at %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXXX.default\prefs.js. Simply add/modify this line:
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "engine_name");
There is no need to modify a sqlite database file manually.
The new search engine will be added automatically after restarting Firefox.
You can also use this opensearch Mycroft Project
It has everything already created just enter the values into textbox and and you have the XML code; and you can install the search engine directly in the browser from there.
You can also submit your website search engine, and search for (and use) a search engine submitted by another user.
The easiest way to add new search engines is via the "Add to Search Bar" add-on, simply right click on the search form on the webpage you want to add, then "Add to Search Bar" and it will show up in the Search Bar:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682
I came here to add tldr-pages as a custom search, looking for a way how to do that.
Turns out, that there was a very simple way:
In Firefox, next to the URL-bar, there is a search-bar with a magnifying-glass. If that magnifying-glass has a PLUS on it, the page you are looking at offers its own openSearch.xml-file.
hit the search-box
a pop-up opens
find the line that says "Add" at the bottom and
click it
That is how I solved my initial problem and maybe it solves yours, too.
Make sure that your & is escaped as &
Firefox will NOT activate the search engine that are broken in format
Check https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox#Troubleshooting_TipsJust put a right xml file in right place,it will take effect after restarting firefox
Give this a try.
http://www.investintech.com/resources/blog/archives/5263-address-bar-search-engine.html
Using Iceweasel (Linux), should work for Firefox too.
Tried it for about 30 sites that i had with Chrome/Chromium.
Pro:
Works!
Cons:
Too much manual work.
This helped for me on Firefox v50:
Close Firefox.
Delete in profile of Firefox: search.json, search.json.mozlz4
Copy your OpenSearch from the searchplugins folder.
Add an entry in search-metadata.json:
"[profile]/your-opensearch.xml": {
"alias": "your-opensearch",
"order": 25
}
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Because this is not the kind of company where wiki's are accepted, we tend to do a lot of communication through outlook. Sending code snippets through it is painfull.
Is there some way to get the markdown thing we have here, but in outlook?
For future visitors: https://github.com/mmanela/MarkdownOutlook
Per their wiki:
A simple plugin for Outlook 2013 which adds a button to the compose mail menu to enable Markdown mode. When enabled your email will be turned from Markdown syntax to html when sending.
Uses MarkdownSharp for the markdown conversion
Uses VSTO to integrate with Outlook
Uses an Installer Project to build an installer
I haven't been able to find an editor BUT you can write your email where I'm typing now which will show you the result in the preview pane. (including code snippets)
You can then copy the result from the preview pane into outlook (I've tried thunderbird too and it works)
If at first your code doesnt render nicely (ie colour coded) then ensure you are editing in the 'Ask Question' editor (not in the Your Answer section) - this made a difference for me.
Since Outlook uses Word as an email editor (Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003 can be configured to use Word) you could use the AutoCorrect feature to apply simple formatting to your email. __text__ will trigger italic and **bold** will trigger bold. List can be created automatically when typing - or 1.
Another option might be to run a VBA macro on sending the email which converts the Markdown formatting to (X)HTML.
I've taken to running Markdown Pro on my Mac and pasting the preview pane results into the message. Painful but workable.
There is a similar editor, MarkdownPad, for Windows, but I have not tried it.
If you use Thunderbird, then you can use the markdown-here extension.
My outlook 2007 works with basic markdown _italic_ and *bold* with no configuration.
I'm new to development on OS X, but -- I've been using the simple-but-it-works MarkdownLive for the same purpose. I think I've been using the free version of MarkdownPad on Windows, although I keep meaning to check out the MD functionality in WriteMonkey. Going forward, I almost certainly will just be using Sublime Text 2.
You might check out what Brett Terpstra is doing ... doubt he is running Outlook, but it might be a problem he has addressed all the same. I also want to look at this package of scripts for Marked
Hm. My work email is accessed through Outlook's web UI ... I think I smell a Chrome extension around here somewhere ...