First off HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING! Next, I had my first venture the other day in switching a small company over to Google Apps from outlook. They already were using Gtalk and Google Docs so the switch should of been done long ago. Drawbacks at first? Google’s conversational view that cannot be turned off. Also no option for a preview pane. No big deal, right? Next, the fancy HTML signatures that you have in Outlook cannot be put into Gmail’s signature feature. It only allows plain text. Lame! After much research, the only way you could get to work was to download some pain in the ass add-on of an add-on for Firefox, Greasemonkey. First of all, this is not a viable business solution people, stop wasting your time with these scripts. Second, I want to use Chrome, which is so much faster with Google Apps than any other browser. Third, Chrome allows application shortcuts on desktop/start menu/etc. These shortcuts open up the Gmail App without you seeing browser buttons or an address bar, perfect for business productivity.

Thus, I found a workaround! That was unheard of on the Internet so perhaps I’m the first one to figure it out (doubt it, there’s always someone else that’s first). Just copy your Outlook signature into a Gmail e-mail message body, but first in Google Labs, enabled canned responses. Save the signature as a canned response! And wala! Perfect fancy signatures! Only problem is you have to remember to insert it each time you need it, but better than nothing. And I’m in a rush so I could give 2 craps less about my grammar this post nor my English class finals this week.