I'm having a heck of a time figuring out why Outlook is changing my
html code when I create a new message using a custom HTML signature. I
hand coded it in WordPad / notepad.

The HTML signature has been validated by w3c and appears correctly in
my Internet Browser. When I go to create new message, it appears
Outlook is adding a bunch for Table Body tags and DIV tags to my
message. This messes everything up and it looks like crap. Why won't it
leave my message alone? Why doesn't Microsoft have to put it's fingers
in everything!

I"m not using MS Word as my editor, I have turned off all Internet
Formatting options and encoding options and still it changes my
properly formatted code.

Please help! There are a few posts out there with the same issue but
not responses yet.

Thanks in advance.

Probably no responses because of insufficient information. Without knowing what code your signature includes, it's hard to say much about it.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

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I'm having a heck of a time figuring out why Outlook is changing my
html code when I create a new message using a custom HTML signature. I
hand coded it in WordPad / notepad.

The HTML signature has been validated by w3c and appears correctly in
my Internet Browser. When I go to create new message, it appears
Outlook is adding a bunch for Table Body tags and DIV tags to my
message. This messes everything up and it looks like crap. Why won't it
leave my message alone? Why doesn't Microsoft have to put it's fingers
in everything!

I"m not using MS Word as my editor, I have turned off all Internet
Formatting options and encoding options and still it changes my
properly formatted code.

Please help! There are a few posts out there with the same issue but
not responses yet.

Thanks in advance.