Image in Signature not Displayed – Mail Sent by VBA

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Dear Friends,

I was keep getting this question from many of you that whenever your outlook signature has an Image then rest of the texts are displayed correctly but Image was never displayed. It was always appearing with a red cross sign (missing image) image. In order to get rid of this problem there are two solutions.

outlook Signature with image

outlook Signature with image

Method 1 : A Trick while displaying the HTML signature (Applicable for any Signature)

Before we jump in to the solution, lets see what goes wrong when we try to display a signature with Image via VBA code. As I had explained in my previous post, How to add signatures from outlook before sending an email via Excel VBA?

Outlook stores all the Signatures in AppData folder in windows in different format like Text, HTML etc. Therefore to display an HTML Signature, first we find the HTML file, read the whole HTML file and append it at the end of the mail body. This is exactly where the problem was when a HTML signature had an Image.
All the texts are part of HTML but as you know for image, HTML has a tag where you provide the path where image is located. All the images are stored in a separate within the Signature folder as you can see in the below picture.
Image in Outlook signature

Note: In HTML, if the files are within the same folder where your HTML file is then you do not need to provide the complete path, rather you just give the folder name and file name. HTML by default look for that folder and image within the same directory. This is how outlook reads it and displays the images in mails.
But when we read it from HTML via VBA then this image URL becomes unknown for outlook to display the image in Signature. I hope you understood the problem.

Now you know the problem, then solution is simple :

Solution

Before we use the HTML code for signature at the end of Mail body, we need to change all the path (incomplete URLs) with complete URLs.

Read my comments in the code where I have made the changes.

Method 1: Any Outlook Signature with Image


Sub With_HTML_Signature_With_Image()

    'Do not forget to change the email ID
    'before running this code

    Dim OlApp As Object
    Dim NewMail As Object
    Dim EmailBody As String
    Dim StrSignature As String
    Dim sPath As String
    Dim signImageFolderName As String
    Dim completeFolderPath As String

    Set OlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set NewMail = OlApp.CreateItem(0)
    
    ' Here Since we are talking about
    ' the HTML email then we need to
    ' write the Body of the Email in
    ' HTML.

    EmailBody = "Hello Friends !!" & "

Welcome to LearnExcelMacro.com" & vbNewLine & _
    "Here i will make you awesome in Excel Macro.

You can mail me at info@learnexcelmacro.com"

    '*****************************************************
    '                    Important
    '*****************************************************
    ' go to the appdata path as mentioned in
    ' the above important point. Check the name of
    ' the signature file. For example: here in my system
    ' the signature's file name is vish.txt, vish.htm
    ' Therefore before running this code, check the
    ' name of the signature file in your system and
    ' replace vish.txt with your file name.
    '****************************************************

    sPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\Default.htm"
    ' Files folder name is always same name as html file name appended by
    ' "_files"
    signImageFolderName = "Default_files"
    ' in outlook HTML forward slashes are used for
    ' the file path
    completeFolderPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\" & signImageFolderName

    ' If the path and file name given by you is not
    ' correct then code you insert a blank Signature
    
    If Dir(sPath) <> "" Then
        StrSignature = GetSignature(sPath)
        ' Now replace this incomplete file path
        ' with complete path wherever it is used
        StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName, completeFolderPath)
    Else
        StrSignature = ""
    End If

    On Error Resume Next
    With NewMail
        .To = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .CC = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .BCC = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .Subject = "Type your Subject here"
        ' Here at the end of the Email Body
        ' HTML Signature is inserted.
        .htmlBody = EmailBody & StrSignature
        .display
        .send
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0
    Set NeMail = Nothing
    Set OlApp = Nothing
End Sub

Important : Do not Forget

Do not forget to copy paste the below function in your module
Function to read the Signature file and return the Signature Text


Function GetSignature(fPath As String) As String
    Dim fso As Object
    Dim TSet As Object
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set TSet = fso.GetFile(fPath).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
    GetSignature= TSet.readall
    TSet.Close
End Function

Method 2 : Simple and Easy Trick (Only for Default Signature)

All you need to do is, in your VBA code, before you assign a Body of your email, display it once on the screen. As soon as VBA displays the mail on screen, outlook, by default, adds its default signature at the end of the body of your email.

Every time before sending the email, if you display your mail, you can see this method will be slow. Therefore it is not good for sending bulk emails in a loop. By the way this method, can be used for all type of signatures (Text, HTML, image etc.). But important to note than this is applicable for Default Signature in outlook only

Important .Display statement should be used anywhere but before the Email Body statement as explained above. If you display your email after putting the email body, then outlook will not append the default signature at the end of your email body.


Sub Outlook_Default_Signature_With_Image()

    'Do not forget to change the email ID
    'before running this code

    Dim OlApp As Object
    Dim NewMail As Object
    Dim EmailBody As String
    Dim StrSignature As String
    Dim sPath As String

    Set OlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set NewMail = OlApp.CreateItem(0)
    
    ' Here Since we are talking about
    ' the HTML email then we need to
    ' write the Body of the Email in
    ' HTML.

    EmailBody = "Hello Friends !!" & "

Welcome to LearnExcelMacro.com" & vbNewLine & _
    "Here i will make you awesome in Excel Macro.

You can mail me at info@learnexcelmacro.com"

    On Error Resume Next
    With NewMail
        .To = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .CC = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .BCC = "info@learnexcelmacro.com"
        .Subject = "Type your Subject here"
        ' Important! Before writing the body of your email
        ' you should display the mail
        .display
        ' Here at the end of the Email Body
        ' HTML Signature is inserted.
        .htmlBody = EmailBody
        .send
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0
    Set NeMail = Nothing
    Set OlApp = Nothing
End Sub

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22 Comments

  1. Bruce

    I am using the code you provided in Office 2016. I use to have the image hidden and attached then placed at the end of the email when I was using office 2010. The update just happened and now the image will not display when it is attached to the email and it also gives me the image can not be displayed issue with your code. Any thoughts on a non default signature with an image? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Bruce

      Just wanted to follow up and see if anyone has been able to figure this 2016 issue out?

      Reply
    • Vishwamitra Mishra

      Dear Bruce,

      Sorry for the late response.. are you still facing this issue?

      Reply
  2. Nelchael

    hi, i need you help. i cannot display pictures inside my signature, this is my code:

    Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
        Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
        Dim objRecipients As Outlook.Recipients
        Dim objRecipient As Outlook.Recipient
        Dim strRecipientAddress As String
        Dim strSignatureFile As String
        Dim objFileSystem As Object
        Dim objTextStream As Object
        Dim strSignature As String
     
        If TypeOf Item Is MailItem Then
           Set objMail = Item
           Set objRecipients = objMail.Recipients
        End If
     
        'Select different signature files based on recipients
        'You can change the conditions as per you actual needs
        If objRecipients.Count = 1 Then
           Set objRecipient = objRecipients.Item(1)
           strRecipientAddress = objRecipient.Address
            If InStr(1, strRecipientAddress, "email user 1 ") > 0 Or InStr(1, LCase(objRecipient.Name), "name surname") > 0 Then
                strSignatureFile = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE")) & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\test4.htm"
            ElseIf InStr(1, strRecipientAddress, "email user 2") > 0 Or InStr(1, LCase(objRecipient.Name), "name surname") > 0 Then
                strSignatureFile = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE")) & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\test3.htm"
            Else
            strSignatureFile = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE")) & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\DefaultSign.htm"
           End If
        Else
           strSignatureFile = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE")) & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\DefaultSign.htm"
        End If
     
        'Read the specific signature file
        Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set objTextStream = objFileSystem.OpenTextFile(strSignatureFile)
        strSignature = objTextStream.ReadAll
     
        'Insert the signature to this email
        objMail.HTMLBody = objMail.HTMLBody & "" & strSignature & ""
    End Sub
    

    but i can’t send pictures!!

    can you help me?

    Reply
    • Vishwamitra Mishra

      Hi,
      This article was mainly for this issue. If you look at the code which I have in the article, after reading the Signature file, it is important to replace the incomplete image file path with complete file path. Due to this incomplete path of the image, Outlook is not able to display any images in the Signature.

      Append the below piece of code in your main code, it should work. Let me know if this helps.

      
      'Find the htm name and the folder name where images are stored
       Dim signImageFolderName as String
      SignatureFileName = VBA.Mid(strSignatureFile, VBA.InStrRev(strSignatureFile, "\", , vbTextCompare) + 1)
      signImageFolderName = VBA.Left(SignatureFileName , VBA.InStrRev(SignatureFileName, ".", , vbTextCompare) - 1) & "_files"
      completeFolderPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\" & signImageFolderName
      
      ‘Read the specific signature file
      Set objFileSystem = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
      Set objTextStream = objFileSystem.OpenTextFile(strSignatureFile)
      strSignature = objTextStream.ReadAll
      StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName, completeFolderPath)
      
      ‘Insert the signature to this email
      objMail.HTMLBody = objMail.HTMLBody & “” & strSignature & “”
      End Sub
      
      
      Reply
  3. Łukasz

    Hi second code is not working:

    i have tested it and when you are pasting htmlbody – whole email text is deleted and replaced by hmtlbody text…

    Reply
  4. jas

    This worked a treat for me with MS Office 2013. Thank you very much.

    Reply
  5. Feipe

    it works excelent, thanks from Chile!!

    Reply
  6. faris

    Hello,

    i need ur help, because my signature can’t display in my email.

    this is my code vba

    Sub Send_Files()
        Dim OutApp As Object
        Dim OutMail As Object
        Dim sh As Worksheet
        Dim cell As Range
        Dim FileCell As Range
        Dim rng As Range
        Dim StrSignature As String
        Dim sPath As String
    
        StrSignature = GetSignature(Environ("User-pc") & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\Faris.htm")
        
    
    
        
        Set sh = Sheets("Kirim")
        Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
        
        
        filePath = Range("K2").Value
        
        On Error Resume Next
            For Each cell In sh.Columns("C").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
            Set rng = sh.Cells(cell.Row, 1).Range("C1:Z1")
            If cell.Value Like "?*@?*.?*" And _
               Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(rng) > 0 Then
                Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
                With OutMail
                    .To = cell.Value
                    .cc = "" & Cells(cell.Row, 1).Range("g1:g1")
                    .Subject = "" & Cells(cell.Row, 1).Range("h1:h1")
                    .htmlbody = "" & cell.Offset(0, -1).Value & vbNewLine & "" & vbNewLine & "" & _
                     StrSignature
    
                    
                    For Each FileCell In rng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
                        If Trim(FileCell)  "" Then
                            If Dir(FileCell.Value)  "" Then
                                .Attachments.Add FileCell.Value
                                
                            End If
                        End If
                    Next FileCell
                .display
                
                End With
                Set OutMail = Nothing
            End If
        Next cell
        Set OutApp = Nothing
        With Application
            .EnableEvents = True
            .ScreenUpdating = True
        End With
    End Sub
    
    Function GetSignature(fPath As String) As String
        Dim fso As Object
        Dim TSet As Object
        fPath = "C:\Users\User-pc\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\Faris.htm"
        Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set TSet = fso.GetFile(fPath).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
        GetSignature = TSet.readall
        TSet.Close
    End Function
    
    Reply
  7. Geo

    Excellent, Thanks

    Reply
  8. chris terrell

    Great article. I had an issue with a space in the Signature file name and notices the HTML needed the space to be converted to %20

    Reply
  9. Trevor

    I am having an issue where the images are now displaying when I send the email to myself but when I send the email to a third party the images are not displaying. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

    Function GetSignature(Spath As String) As String
      On Error GoTo eh
        Dim fso As Object
        Dim TSet As Object
        Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set TSet = fso.GetFile(Spath).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
        GetSignature = TSet.readall
        TSet.Close
    Exit Function
    eh:
    Logger "Error", Err.Source, Err.Description
    End Function
    
    Public Sub SubmissionToProcessing()
    On Error GoTo eh
    'Checking Required fields for this step
    If Sheets("Conditions").Range("J4").Value = "" Or Sheets("Conditions").Range("J4").Value = " " Or Sheets("Conditions").Range("J3").Value = " " _
    Or Sheets("Conditions").Range("J3").Value = "" Or Sheets("Conditions").Range("J2").Value = " " Or Sheets("Conditions").Range("J2").Value = "" Then
    
    MsgBox "Please make sure that the Application #, Loan Officer:, and Branch: fields are complete.", vbExclamation, "UW Condition Sheet"
    Exit Sub
    End If
    
    Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application
        Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
        Dim lCounter As Long
        'Set objects
        Set objOutlook = Outlook.Application
        'Read details from Excel sheet and send emails
        
        'To
        Dim TO1 As String
        TO1 = Sheets("Automation Data").Range("D5").Value
        
        'CC
        Dim CC1 As String
        CC1 = Sheets("Automation Data").Range("D2").Value
        
        'Application #
        Dim AN1 As String
        AN1 = Sheets("Conditions").Range("J2").Value
        Dim Spath As String
        Dim StrSignature As String
        
       
            
            Spath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\signature.htm"
            signImageFolderName = "Signature_files"
            completeFolderPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\" & signImageFolderName
            StrSignature = GetSignature(Spath)
            StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName, completeFolderPath)
        
            'Create a new email item
            Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
            'Sent from
            objMail.SentOnBehalfOfName = "example.example@example.com"
            'Importance
            objMail.Importance = 1
            'To
            objMail.To = TO1
            'Cc
            objMail.CC = CC1
            'Subject
            objMail.Subject = "Application # " + AN1 + " has been recieved by processing."
            'Email Body
            objMail.HTMLBody = "Test" & "" & "" & StrSignature
            'Add Attachment
            'objMail.Attachments.Add "S:\Community Banking\"
            'objMail.Attachments.Add "S:\Community Banking\"
            'Send email
            objMail.Send
            'Close the object
            Set objMail = Nothing
            
    MsgBox "A notification has been succesfully sent to the MLR and BM."
    
    Exit Sub
    
    eh:
       Logger "Error", Err.Source, Err.Description
    
            
    End Sub
    
    Reply
  10. Nilson

    Olá Vishwamitra
    Não entendi os parâmetros If Dir(sPath) <> “” Then
    Em lt e gt, qual o caminho a considerar?
    Desde já lhe parabenizo pelo ótimo trabalho.

    Hello Vishwamitra
    I didn’t understand the parameters If Dir(sPath) <> “” Then
    In lt and gt, which way to consider?
    I congratulate you in advance for the great work.

    Reply
  11. Prakash

    Hello,

    i am using below module for multiple mails but I dont know how to add signature in that.
    please help.

    "Dear Customer," & _
                    "Kind Attn :-" & Cells(i, 7) & ", Company " & Cells(i, 5) & vbNewLine & _
                    "Thank you for your recent order " & Cells(i, 6) & "to us." & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
                    "We are pleased to inform you that the items listed are now on the way to you." & vbNewLine & _
                    "Your order has been executed against Sales Order " & Cells(i, 1) & " & Invoiced with " & Cells(i, 2) & " dated " & Cells(i, 3) & ". Materials  have been shipped to your address through Transporter " & Cells(i, 13) & "against docket no. " & Cells(i, 11) & " dated " & Cells(i, 12) & vbNewLine & _
                    "Your order should reach you within Few days as mentioned in the website of the Transporter." & vbNewLine & _
                    "It has been a pleasure to serve you, and once again, thank you fot choosing our product." & vbNewLine & _
                    "" & vbNewLine & _
                    "" & vbNewLine & _
                    "Regards," & vbNewLine & _
                    "Prakash Patil" & vbNewLine & _
                    "Swagelok"
    
    Reply
  12. Harris

    Hi, great code, thank you.
    However I would like the signature to appear in the open email that I want to send, and not to open a new email as this code does.
    Can you tell me what I need to change to do so?

    Regards
    Harris

    Reply
  13. Harris

    Hi
    Great code!
    However, I would like to add the signature to an existing email instead of opening a new email message.
    How do I do this?
    Is your code easily adaptable for this?

    Reply
  14. Vanessa

    Hi, I need help on this. I already followed everything. But the image on my signature still could not be displayed.

    Reply
  15. Tina

    For anyone struggling to get this working as expected in later versions, I found the only way to get the file to display was to use this line instead:
    StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName + “/”, “file:///” + completeFolderPath + “\”)

    Also, if your signImageFolderName contains spaces, ensure that the spaces are replaced by %20 to match how it is referenced in the htm file.

    Reply
  16. SRB

    In my case it does not work (Office 365): the email contains the html tags, like this:

    BODY_TEST

    […]

    Reply
  17. xsonngu

    I hope this modification can run to display image in signature. I have test and it is ok.

    sPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\Default.htm"
        ' Files folder name is always same name as html file name appended by
        ' "_files"
        signImageFolderName = "Default_files"
    
        'Add this line to replace  "space" to "%20"
        signImageFolderName = VBA.Replace(signImageFolderName, " ", "%20")
    
        ' in outlook HTML forward slashes are used for
        ' the file path
        completeFolderPath = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\" & signImageFolderName
    
    'Add this line to replace  "/" to "\"
        completeFolderPath = VBA.Replace(completeFolderPath, "/", "\")
        
    ' If the path and file name given by you is not
        ' correct then code you insert a blank Signature
        
        If Dir(sPath)  "" Then
            StrSignature = GetSignature(sPath)
            ' Now replace this incomplete file path
            ' with complete path wherever it is used
    ' Change string completeFolderPath)
           ' StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName, completeFolderPath)
    	 StrSignature = VBA.Replace(StrSignature, signImageFolderName, "file:///" & completeFolderPath)
        Else
            StrSignature = ""
        End If
    
    Reply
  18. Hang Bannon

    Dear Vishwamitra
    Thank you for your powerfull VBA code 🙂
    However, I am experiencing this small problem
    – If Dir(sPath) <> “” Then – this part is highlighted in red
    I am not sure what went wrong
    Please advise
    Thank you for your help
    Best wishes

    Hang Bannon

    Reply

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