UPDATE: July 8, 2010 – Gmail now supports Rich Text Formatting for email signatures

A month ago I was asked about a formatting signatures in Gmail.  At the time the only options were to be content with plain text or to use some script, plug-in or browser add-on to do it.  As of yesterday Google has added Rich Text Formatting for email signatures.  You can now format the text, add links and insert images.  The images have to be hosted somewhere but these days that’s not a problem.

For more information here’s the Gmail Blog HERE.

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Have you received emails with all the extra information at the bottom?  LinkedIn buttons, active links to websites, graphics in the signatures or even just some nice formatting like colors, bold and italics?

All of these are potentially useful features.

However, Gmail doesn’t support them.  So if you rely on Gmail for your business email and want to do a signature you will have to come up with a good, plain-text, version of what you want to do.  Perhaps Google will add the feature in the future.  It’s on their ‘suggestion list’.

For now if you want to add a plain-text signature to your Gmail account here’s a useful link: Adding a signature – Gmail Help.

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