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Automatic Replies in Outlook - Insert Image n/a - PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!
We use O365 for our business needs and recently came to learn that the insert image function is no longer available. As a company that uses an image to display our company logo, address and tagline in our e-signatures its is extremely frustrating to not be able to insert an image in our Automatic Replies when our staff are on vacation and want to create an Out of Office message. I have troubleshot this issue with Microsoft support and was given instruction to use a rule as a work around however this is NOT a good recommendation to what we believe is a HUGE problem since using a rule will send out of office notifications to every single email and not just one email to each sender as is done with notifications when using Automatic Replies. Please take note that we were previously able to insert images in automatic replies and now its gone! Not sure why Microsoft allows you to insert an image when creating an e-signature and even allows you to insert an image in Rules but not in Automatic Replies. Please review and consider bringing back insert image into Automatic Replies!
With Thanks & Appreciation,
Sonja Cicchetti
Hi Sonja_Cicchetti,
in fact Outlook doesn't provide a button to insert an image to auto reply, but you can do that manually, using cut & paste. I've just tested it:
Victor_Ivanidze I am aware that there is no button to insert an image to auto reply, and that you can manually insert using cut and paste but after you've saved and exited, go back in and you will see the image will not be there! They do not allow it to stick.
Hi Sonja_Cicchetti,
my bad - I did not make sure the image doesn't remain there after inserting.
Try a possible workaround: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/73697b50-c727-40fd-a7e0-30c1e6a73e2a/how-do-i-insert-images-in-an-outlook-2016-auto-reply-message?forum=Office2016ITPro
Victor_Ivanidze, I am not sure if it's organizational, but when I paste images in manually, they do not come through to the recipient. They're broken image links only.
Powershell lets you edit the HTML. Use an escape back tick (`) thanks to Chamele0n's post:
https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/out-of-office-messages-office-365/
Hi JeffkofMNv2,
where can I read about this 'escape back tick'? The link you have provided says nothing about that ;(
- Escape back tick and the Codetwo link powershell solution worked for embedding some html with double quotes linking img src. Here is a description of the escape tick.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_quoting_rules?view=powershell-7.1
Sonja_CicchettiI used this this past weekend and it worked fine.
Click: File > Auto. Reply > Send Auto. Replies and fill out your reply.
To add a photo, you need to select "rules" > "Add Rule" and check the box that says "Sent directly to me".To add your photo, at the bottom you'll need to check the box that says "Reply with" and click "Template".
This will open an email box, that you can add your signature and message to WITH photos, then hit "save" and "x" out. When someone sends you a message, they will receive whatever you had entered into the "template" email, pictures included. Worked for me! May not work for you.
