Create an Outlook E mail Publication Template with Stripo — Stripo.electronic mail

With Stripo permitting pushing emails to the Outlook app (each on macOS and Home windows) and to Outlook internet, sending elegant HTML emails by means of your favourite electronic mail consumer is now simple! No add-ons are required.

On this publish, we’ll present find out how to export HTML electronic mail templates to Outlook with simply two clicks. So, maintain studying.

For a short tutorial, please watch a brief how-to video.

Why we determined so as to add direct export to Outlook

Why would you might want to use Outlook when you possibly can ship emails with Mailchimp, eSputnik, or every other ESP?

In line with Litmus, 6.5% of individuals at present use Outlook. Largely, they’re company shoppers who must ship out inside newsletters, be it an annual report or firm information and updates. Undoubtedly, this requires an HTML electronic mail template to make the e-mail/report orderly-structured, responsive, and perhaps even interactive with tables, video directions, or video greetings embedded.

All emails of this type, particularly annual experiences, ought to be stored confidential. Thus, you’re unlikely to ship them through a third-party service. Regardless that all ESPs assure the security of knowledge.

That is why a lot of our customers reached out to us to ask about the way in which they will export templates to this electronic mail consumer.

So, our builders began engaged on this mission. And we have now launched this feature.

construct an electronic mail template with Stripo and ship it by means of Outlook

We’re proud to announce that Stripo is among the few electronic mail editors that let you create electronic mail templates for Outlook and seamlessly export them to this electronic mail consumer.

Step 1. Constructing electronic mail templates for Outlook

In our weblog publish “Guide A to Z“, we defined find out how to construct e-newsletter templates.

You design an electronic mail template for Outlook simply the identical approach.

However there are some issues we might love to focus on right here as a consequence of Outlook’s particular rendering guidelines:

It’s a well-known undeniable fact that buttons within the featured electronic mail consumer might look considerably totally different from the way in which they appear in different electronic mail shoppers. For example, rounded buttons in Outlook get “sq. angles”. Therefore, your electronic mail might lose its magnificence and consistency. No worries — Stripo’s on it.

That can assist you save buttons’ design throughout all Outlook variations, you might want to activate the “Assist of Outlook” possibility.

• go to the “Look” tab within the settings panel;

• head to the “Button” tab;

• allow the “Assist of Outlook” possibility.

Backgrounds render in Microsoft Outlook provided that they’ve been set for the whole electronic mail. In case you set a background for a row/stripe, or every other electronic mail factor, it is not going to be displayed.

We discovered a approach out.

Here is what you are able to do to set backgrounds for electronic mail components/rows/stripes:

• activate the settings of a sure electronic mail factor you wish to add a background to by clicking the label of this content material factor. It may be “Container”, “Stripe”, “Row”, and “Construction”;

• then open the HTML code editor;

• paste this code pattern above the road within the code that begins with “Desk width”;

<!--[if gte mso 9]>

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

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

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

 <![endif]-->

<!--[if gte mso 9]>

   </v:textbox>

 </v:rect>

 <![endif]-->

• make sure you edit the picture width earlier than importing it in order that it matches the container’s — you possibly can see it within the high line after the “width” tag. In our case, it’s 600 px.

Please be suggested that you just can not each use this code for backgrounds and activate the “Assist of Outlook” possibility (for buttons) simultanuously as Outlook renders just one factor written in VML, at a time.

In our “Widespread rendering points in Outlook” weblog publish, we present alternate options to background pictures in emails:

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  GIFs in Outlook electronic mail templates

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

Which variations of Outlook deal with GIFs:

• Outlook as a part of a Microsoft 365 subscription or Workplace 2021;

• MS Outlook for cell units as app;

• Outlook 2003, desktop app;

• Outlook for Mac, app;

• Outlook internet model on each cell and desktop units.

How do you add GIFs in emails with Stripo

Simply the way in which you do with common pictures:

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

• add a essential GIF file by importing your picture or inserting a hyperlink to exterior file storage;

• your electronic mail is able to go.

Bear in mind so as to add a hyperlink to the net model of your electronic mail for these recipients who use Outlook variations as follows: Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016, and even Outlook 2019 in order that they will additionally see your GIFs.

get the Net Model hyperlink with Stripo

• enter the “Preview” mode;
• above your template, please click on the “Copy” button or click on the “Open in a brand new tab” button;

• insert this hyperlink on the high of your electronic mail template for Outlook.

Step 2. Previewing

If you create an HTML electronic mail template for Outlook or every other electronic mail consumer, you might want to preview it previous to sending it out to valued recipients to ensure your emails look simply as you needed them to.

There are 3 ways to examine your emails with Stripo:

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  Approach 1. By getting into the Preview Mode

When you enter this mode, you will note the desktop and cell variations of your electronic mail.

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  Approach 2. Testing electronic mail templates for Outlook with our built-in electronic mail testing instrument

Stripo is built-in with E mail on Acid, the most effective electronic mail testing instruments. This integration means that you can see your emails throughout all variations of Outlook and different electronic mail shoppers.

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  Approach 3. Sending check emails

To take action, simply click on the “Take a look at” icon, above the template and enter plenty of electronic mail addresses — separate them with commas if there’s a bunch of them and click on “Ship”. If you wish to make your messages much more responsive, you possibly can all the time use our 600+ Outlook-compatible electronic mail templates.

You would possibly wish to ship check emails to a number of accounts in Outlook that belong to your pals and colleagues to see “dwell” checks.

Step 3. Exporting electronic mail templates to Outlook

We wish to emphasize which you could export emails from Stripo to Outlook App and Outlook Net.

Exporting emails to Outlook App

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

When your e-newsletter template for Outlook is prepared, you might want to:

• choose Outlook App from plenty of ESPs steered;

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

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

When your template is prepared:

• in a pop-up window, click on the “Export” button. The “Make it public” possibility is already activated;

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

Necessary: 

You solely enable us to entry your drafts folder (for supply functions). We is not going to have entry to your contacts, despatched, and incoming messages.

• your electronic mail is able to go!

You can too use our “Bulk export” choice to export lots of emails to Outlook:

• click on on the “E mail Messages” in your dashboard;

• choose emails you wish to export;

• select the “Export” possibility within the pop-up menu above your messages;

• repeat the steps we described within the part “Exporting electronic mail templates to Outlook”.

In case you select the Outlook App choice to export a number of emails, they are going to be downloaded as an archive to your pc. To search out your emails in Outlook Net, please examine the “Drafts” folder.

Necessary to notice:

Outlook doesn’t enable utilizing a number of accounts in a single browser. So, to be able to join a brand new account, you might want to disconnect the earlier one. Then you could wish to ensure you are totally logged out of your Outlook account. And solely then you can begin connecting a brand new Outlook account to Stripo.

Within the drafts folder, you will note the e-mail precisely the way in which your readers will. On this window, you possibly can edit the template if wanted.   

Necessary:

Outlook removes the types that make electronic mail design responsive. Thus, these customers who see your emails on cell units will see the desktop model of it. No, there is not going to be a horizontal scroll. However all of the containers from one row which are usually moved to the second row on mobiles, will all stay in a single row.

(E mail despatched through ESP)

(E mail despatched through Outlook)

We wish to emphasize as soon as once more that there will not be any horizontal scroll.

Wrapping up

As you possibly can see, constructing and sending emails by means of Outlook is now a stroll within the park.

When you’ve got any questions, please go away a remark beneath — we might be completely satisfied to help.