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February 5, 2025
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Disabling Outlook's advanced typography

  • February 5, 2025
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I'm using Marketo on marketing emails.
I just want to disable Outlook’s Advanced Typography features on all the mails that I'm sending.
I found these scripts on google to overcome this issue.

 

You can add the “opt-out” code snippet below:

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:DontUseAdvancedTypographyReadingMail/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->

 

Alternatively, you could also apply the namespace directly to the element, and just specify if mso since gte mso 9 simply says “greater than or equal to Outlook 2000”, which is a little redundant. In this case, you can simply use this single standalone code block, inserted anywhere in the head of your email’s HTML:

<!--[if mso]><xml> <w:WordDocument xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"> <w:DontUseAdvancedTypographyReadingMail/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->

 

To work, this also requires the following xmlns (XML namespace) attribute on the HTML tag:

<html xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word">

 

Non of above is working when I open the mail in a new window. (It's working fine if the email is inside Outlook window)

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
February 5, 2025

Thanks for the post, although I notice the text is plagiarized without credit from the Knak blog. Please don’t use other people’s words without attribution.