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Sonja_Cicchetti
Brass Contributor
Oct 08, 2020

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

28 Replies

  • Kane_K335's avatar
    Kane_K335
    Copper Contributor

    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.

  • JeffkofMNv2's avatar
    JeffkofMNv2
    Copper Contributor

    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/

     

    Sonja_Cicchetti 

    • Victor_Ivanidze's avatar
      Victor_Ivanidze
      Bronze Contributor

      Hi JeffkofMNv2,

      where can I read about this 'escape back tick'?  The link you have provided says nothing about that  ;(

       

      • Coolcity2200's avatar
        Coolcity2200
        Copper Contributor

        Victor_Ivanidze 

        So you want help/advice but don't want to provide it back? 

         

        Anyway, for what it's worth people I managed to place a picture in my autoresponse message simply by first placing it in my email sig, then copying and pasting the content of that sig into the autoresponder section. 

  • Victor_Ivanidze's avatar
    Victor_Ivanidze
    Bronze Contributor

    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:

     
     
     

     

     

     

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