Outlook 2003 signature in replies changes font

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I have a user that has a signature problem in Outlook 2003 (on WinXP.SP2).
Whenever most (butnot all) people reply to his email messages, or he replies
to theirs, the signatures turn to a very light basically invisible yellow
font (his normal font color is maroon). I have tried every tweak I can think
of, reinstalled Office, etc, but cannot get this problem to go away. Has
anyone seen anything like this or have any ideas how to correct it?
Thanks!
 
Good lord it has taken me forever to find someone with this same problem!
I've tried all of the Tools...Options...Fonts... changes from the Help
options in both Word and Outlook and still my reply messages (though not all
of them) come back in this weird ivory color. Even though I have set all of
my default fonts to Navy in Arial my reply messages are still yellow and
nearly unreadable. So don't feel alone, I need an answer to the same problem!
Any Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
 
Well, I never was able to find an answer anywhere. I kept playing with it and
the only thing I found that had any affect at all was changing the default
message format from html to rtf. That got rid of the changing color...it
broke his email link in his sig, but seemed like a small price to pay to
actually be able to read it! Hope this helps.
 
Try this: Open a new message. Go to Tools...Options...General. Click the
Email Options button at the bottom. Go to Personal Stationery. If it says
Blank next to Theme... Click the Theme button and change it to no theme.
Click OK and Click Font... and change the color back to whatever color you
want. Then click OK at the bottom. This should solve your problem.
 
Know it's been about 6 years - but I was having the same problem and had a slightly different solution required. So just in case anyone else finds this ...

As above start a new email and go to Tools - Options - General - Email Options

In the E-mail Signature tab click on your affected signature. Select the affected text to set the font and click the font colour icon to set the required colour, but (and this is the important bit) DO NOT SELECT AUTOMATIC. There is a distinct difference between Automatic and Black (on the top left of the pallette)!

The actual bug comes from replying to RTF emails coming in, which then takes _some of_ the email format from the original email, including font colour. So if the originator went for a trendy indigo background with ivory text, then your reply picks up the ivory text (although not necessary the inigo background ...). for some reasont he options in personal stationary only apply to new text and not your pulled through sig ...
 
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