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Email signature is HUGE

I have created an email signature in Mail and attach it to my outgoing mails. When I type the mail, the text and the signature look the same size. When my receiver gets the mail, the signature is 13.5pt font and looks HUGE.

I cannot seem to get it to stay as 12pt font like the body of my message. I even tried clicking the box to keep the signature the same size as default font.

HELP!?

Macblack 120gig HD, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPhone4 16g, 500g Time Capsule, 1g shuffle

Posted on Mar 11, 2011 10:29 AM

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Altazon

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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 2:38 AM

Yes, there is a solution I just found. Do exactly the following:

- Go to any computer with Microsoft Outlook.

- Create a signature in Microsoft Outlook. Write your signature, edit the fonts, sizes, etc...

- Make sure the font and font size is the same as the one you set in Mail as your default font.(example: Arial 12)

- Save it, and send an email from Outlook with this signature to yourself (the computer where you use Mail)

- Once you've received this email in Mail, select and "copy" the signature

- Go to Mail, and create a new signature

- Paste the signature (the one you sent to yourself from Outlook)

- Make sure that "Use the same message format as the original message." is unchecked !!

Now try to send an email with this signature, open the email in any mail client like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc... and now the signature should have the same size as the text.

Warning: whenever you want to modify your signature, you have to re-do this entire process. Let's say you want to put a word in Bold in Mail Signature, do not do it, it will screw up everything again. So make sure when you edit your signature in Outlook that it is complete and properly edited.

I know it's not easy, but Apple seems unwilling to solve that MAJOR issue....

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jsrad

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Jul 24, 2013 12:58 PM in response to Danny Kaos

Wish I had a better solution, but I just switched to plain text, and unchecked "Use the same message format as the original message", in mail.app preferences -> Composing.

Honestly, I just got sick of munging my fonts just so Windows Exchange recipients wouldn't see a gigantic signature from me.

Hopefully we'll see some love for this in Mavericks.

Nov 27, 2013 1:16 AM in response to Danny Kaos

I found a solution after breaking my head for the same problem as yours. It might sound silly but try, it worked for me!

Type your signature in your Notes, copy them and paste it in your Signature.

Hope this solves your problem!

Oops, sorry I thought this was the forum for iPhone Signature being huge. My apologies!

Mophy_22

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May 31, 2014 6:36 PM in response to Altazon

Bless you.. This totally worked!!!

Mar 11, 2015 7:28 PM in response to Danny Kaos

Hi All,

I am having a problem within Outlook 2011 for Mac. When I receive email threads, my original signature appears huge - 13 points. The fixes I saw on this page seemed to be fixes for Mac Mail. I'm not having trouble there, but only in Outlook. Does anyone have a fix? I've tried creating the signature in Word, then pasting it in. I've also tried creating and formatting it in Outlook but am having the same problem.

Vaib1987

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Nov 24, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Altazon

This one helped me. It was very easy. Thank you.

Jun 23, 2017 2:14 PM in response to Danny Kaos

Try disabling the "Larger Accessibility Sizes" in Settings -> General - > Accessibility.

Email signature is HUGE