Tips on how to Create an Electronic mail Template for Outlook with Stripo — Stripo.e-mail

Sending elegant HTML emails by your favourite e-mail consumer is now simple! Stripo permits customers to push emails to the Outlook app (on each macOS and Home windows) or to Outlook on the internet. No add-ons are required.

On this publish, we’ll present you export HTML e-mail templates to Outlook with simply two clicks, so maintain studying.

For a quick tutorial, please watch this quick how-to video.

Why we determined so as to add direct export to Outlook

Why must you use Outlook when you may ship emails with Mailchimp, eSputnik, or one other ESP?

In response to Litmus, 6.5% of individuals at present use Outlook. Most are company purchasers who commonly ship inside emails, akin to annual reviews or firm information and updates. Making such emails orderly, structured, responsive, and interactive (e.g., with embedded tables, video directions, or greetings) requires an HTML e-mail template.

Although ESPs assure privateness, as a result of inside company communications, particularly annual reviews, have to be saved confidential, it’s best to keep away from sending them through a third-party service. For this reason lots of our customers have requested a approach to export templates to Outlook.

In response, our builders began engaged on this mission, and now we have now launched such an choice.

Tips on how to construct an e-mail template with Stripo and ship it by Outlook

We’re proud to announce that Stripo is now among the many few e-mail editors that help you create e-mail templates that may be seamlessly exported to Outlook.

Step 1. Constructing e-mail templates for Outlook

In our weblog publish “Handbook A to Z,” we clarify construct e-mail templates.

You design an e-mail template for Outlook in simply the identical method. As a result of Outlook’s particular rendering guidelines, nevertheless, we should spotlight a number of issues we might love to spotlight right here because of Outlook’s particular rendering guidelines:

It’s well-known that Outlook buttons look considerably totally different from these of different e-mail purchasers. For example, Outlook’s rounded buttons have sq. angles, which may alter an e-mail’s aesthetic presentation and consistency. No worries—Stripo’s on it!

To avoid wasting your buttons’ design throughout all Outlook variations, you merely activate the “help of Outlook” choice.

Backgrounds render in Microsoft Outlook provided that they’ve been set for all the e-mail. It won’t be displayed in case you set a background for only a row/stripe or different e-mail components.

We now have discovered an answer.

This is set backgrounds for e-mail components/rows/stripes:

• activate the settings for the precise aspect you need to add a background to by clicking the aspect’s label, which can be “Container,” “Stripe,” “Row,” or “Construction”;

• open the HTML code editor;

<!--[if gte mso 9]>

 <v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" model="width:327px;peak:100%;">

   <v:fill sort="body" src="https://iiqf.stripocdn.e-mail/content material/guids/CABINET_b696bac619e2a6fd60a2c756b8b7c9c5/pictures/26661559905688877.png" coloration="#7bceeb" ></v:fill>

   <v:textbox inset="0,0,0,0">

 <![endif]-->

<!--[if gte mso 9]>

   </v:textbox>

 </v:rect>

 <![endif]-->

• you should definitely edit the picture width earlier than importing in order that it matches the container’s—you may see this within the prime line after the “width” tag, which in our instance, is 600 px.

Please be suggested that you just can’t concurrently use this code for backgrounds and activate the “Assist of Outlook” choice (for buttons), as Outlook renders just one aspect written in VML, at a time.

In our “Frequent rendering points in Outlook” weblog publish, we provide alternate options to e-mail background pictures.

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  Outlook e-mail template GIFs

Everyone knows that as of February 2019, Outlook helps GIFs. 

Which variations of Outlook deal with GIFs?

• Outlook inside a Microsoft 365 subscription or Workplace 2021;

• MS Outlook app for cell units;

• Outlook 2003 desktop app;

• Outlook for Mac app;

• Outlook net model on each cell and desktop units.

How do you add GIFs into emails with Stripo?

Simply as you’ll with common pictures:

• drag the “Picture” block into your Outlook e-mail template;

• add the GIF file by importing the photograph or inserting a hyperlink to exterior file storage;

• your e-mail is able to go!

To make sure that GIFs are seen to all recipients, keep in mind to incorporate a hyperlink to the net model of your e-mail for many who use the next Outlook variations: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019.

How do you get a hyperlink to the net model with Stripo?

• insert the copied hyperlink on the prime of the template.

Step 2. Previewing

Once you create an HTML e-mail template for Outlook or some other e-mail consumer, you will need to preview it earlier than sending to valued recipients to make sure it seems to be simply as you meant. There are 3 ways to test your emails with Stripo.:

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  Approach 1. By getting into the preview mode

Once you enter preview mode, you will notice your e-mail’s desktop and cell variations.

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  Approach 2. Utilizing Stripo’s built-in e-mail testing device

Stripo is built-in with Electronic mail on Acid, probably the greatest e-mail testing instruments, permitting you to see your emails throughout all variations of Outlook and different e-mail purchasers.

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  Approach 3. Sending check emails

For “dwell” exams, chances are you’ll need to ship emails to Outlook accounts that belong to your folks and colleagues. To ship a check e-mail, merely click on the “Take a look at” icon above the template, enter the e-mail addresses you want to ship to (separated by commas), and click on “Ship.” If you wish to make your messages much more responsive, you need to use our 600+ Outlook-compatible e-mail templates.

You would possibly need to ship check emails to a number of accounts in Outlook that belong to your folks and colleagues to see “dwell” exams.

Step 3. Exporting e-mail templates to Outlook

We wish to emphasize which you can export emails from Stripo to each the Outlook app and Outlook on the internet.

Exporting emails to the Outlook app

This feature works on each Home windows and macOS (for Microsoft Workplace 365 and Outlook 2019 and better).

As soon as your Outlook e-mail template is prepared, do the next:

• choose the Outlook app from the steered ESPs;

• decide the kind of file you want—OFT for Home windows or EMLTPL for macOS;

• click on the file downloaded to your pc, which can open an Outlook window along with your ready-to-send e-mail template;

• edit the e-mail as vital, which is rather like enhancing paperwork in Microsoft Phrase;

• enter your recipients’ e-mail addresses and a topic line—carried out!

Exporting emails to Outlook.com (Outlook on the internet)

When your template is prepared, do the next:

• in the pop-up window, click on the “Export” button and be certain that the “Make it public” choice is activated;

• enter your Outlook credentials;
• give Stripo entry to your Outlook account;

Essential to notice: 

Stripo will solely obtain entry to your drafts folder for supply functions. It won’t entry your contacts or your despatched and incoming messages.

• head to your Outlook “Drafts” folder;

• edit the e-mail if vital;

• add a topic line if desired (by default, it’s the template title);

• your e-mail is able to go!

Utilizing Stripo’s bulk export choice to export many emails to Outlook

• click on on “Electronic mail messages” in your dashboard;

• select the emails you need to export;

• select the “Export” choice from the pop-up menu above your messages;

• full the steps listed within the part “Exporting e-mail templates to Outlook.”

For those who export a number of emails to the Outlook app, they are going to be downloaded to your pc as an archive. For Outlook on the internet, they are going to be discovered within the “Drafts” folder, the place they are going to seem precisely as your readers will see them. You may edit the templates on this window if wanted.

Essential to notice:

As a result of Outlook doesn’t enable the simultaneous use of a number of accounts in a single browser, connecting a brand new account requires disconnecting an open one. So, please be sure to are logged out of 1 Outlook account earlier than attempting to attach one other to Stripo.

You will note the e-mail within the drafts folder precisely as your readers will. On this window, you may edit the template if wanted.   

Essential to notice:

Outlook removes the types that make e-mail design responsive, so customers who view your emails on cell units will see the desktop model. No, there won’t be a horizontal scroll, however the containers usually moved from one row to the following on cell units will stay in the identical row.

(Electronic mail despatched through ESP)

(Electronic mail despatched through Outlook)

We need to emphasize once more that there will likely be no horizontal scroll.

Wrapping up

As you may see, constructing and sending emails by Outlook is now a stroll within the park.

When you have any questions, please depart a remark under. We will likely be pleased to help.