Master Outlook signatures

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2025-12-03

🔗 Barrier-free email signatures and out-of-office replies

Accessibility isn’t just a trend, it’s a responsibility.

More organizations are recognizing the importance of making their communication inclusive and barrier-free.

Around 2.4% of adults worldwide use screen readers due to visual impairment.

Accessibility benefits approximately 1.3 billion people with disabilities, plus their families and caregivers.

But accessability is an ubiquitous demand that is not bound to a...

2025-11-26

🔗 New release v4.24.0

Easy account picture integration, launchevent control and more

Intuitive account picture integration in DOCX templates

Adding user photos to your DOCX signature templates is now significantly simpler.

You can now insert an account picture by simply adding a shape to your DOCX template, positioning it "inline with text," and setting the picture replacement variable (e.g., '$CurrentUserPhoto$') in the...

2025-11-19

🔗 Detect and convert encodings

ConvertEncoding enables reliable detection and conversion of encodings.

The history of encoding began long before IT. Even the first alphabets were attempts to translate spoken language into visual symbols. Whether cuneiform, hieroglyphics, or the Latin alphabet, every culture developed its own systems for encoding information and preserving it across time and space.

With the advent of computers, encoding...

2025-11-12

🔗 Why is Out Of Office abbreviated as OOF and not OOO?

Let's rewind to the 1980s. Back then, Microsoft Xenix was the leading Unix OS…

It's one of those quirks that makes you pause: Why do we say OOF instead of OOO?

Let's rewind to the 1980s. Back then, Microsoft Xenix was the leading Unix OS - yes, really! - and Microsoft itself was running its own mail system on it. This system had a...

2025-11-04

🔗 How to deploy a signature only once – and a clever alternative

Sometimes, you want to deploy a signature only once, allow the user to personalize it, and never overwrite it again.

Signature management solutions like Set-OutlookSignatures are designed to reduce user errors, simplify updates, and empower IT and marketing teams to manage signatures efficiently.

Sometimes, you want to deploy a signature only once, allow the user to personalize it, and never overwrite it again.

There are three ways to achive this...