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Frantiq

Hi there.
I've got a major problem on my hands. I'm developing a newsletter for a client and it works perfectly in all apps other than Outlook (go figure).

What happens is that for some reason Outlook ignores my font-family-style.
I've got this on all td:s in my newsletter:

style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;"

and this in the head:

<style media="all" type="text/css">
td { font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; }
</style>

It works fine in my version of outlook (a new fresh installation, since I'm working on a Mac) but not on my coworkers and/or the clients. They end up with Times New Roman as a font, while I "downgrade" to Helvetica/Arial (as it should be).

The wierd thing is, other newsletters (also done by me) works fine in all of our Outlook-versions.

What have I missed? Or what is wrong? Help would be very kind.
Oh, and we are using the service "Madmimi" to send our newsletters.
/Henrik, Sweden

EDIT: I solved the problem. I switched doctype to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">

jamy_za

I would suggest using inline styling for HTML newsletters. That's what I do and I've never had a problem.

<p style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Example</p>

Frantiq

jamy_za, I tried that after I wrote this post, still no success.

jamy_za

Do you have a version of the newsletter online?

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