Nicole Merlin

Email Developer at @knak.

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@MrFussyfont I haven't, sorry! 😬 The gradient trick works in Win Mail, but you need to set CSS position (i.e. to relative) on the button and then deal with the resulting issues. You can use mso-position-horizontal: center / left / right to handle the horizontal alignment though.

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@wilcobakker You're so welcome, I'm glad it helped!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@marketing_101 @knak Same!! 🥳

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@knak @pompeii79 @jainamistry Thanks, you two! 🥰

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

I have joined the wonderful team at @knak!😊 (And they are far too kind, as you can see.)

[Knak @knak]

Legendary email developer joins forces with no-code email creation platform. Not a headline you hear every day, right?

Read our Q&A with @moonstrips to hear all about her mission to make life and creativity easier for marketers.
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[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@AlexRob22358708 Oh nice one! Great discovery!!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

I delved into the wild world of Outlook 365 for Windows and its wacky text colour changes in Dark Mode – these are the results! #emailgeeks https://t.co/VHFggZHRJW

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@The_Annett @Shopify Congratulations!!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@spodrock @pompeii79 That is annoying – was it working previously? Sometimes I have had fails because I targeted the wrong element etc. But yes, the older versions of Outlook definitely hate the gradient trick, so gte mso 16 is important.

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@Ro_Santander @carinslater @The_Annett @megbosh @pompeii79 Let me know if you get stuck!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@carinslater @Ro_Santander @The_Annett @megbosh @pompeii79 Yesss! This makes me so, so happy to hear 😊

[Anne Tomlin @pompeii79]

I just successfully implemented the mso text gradient to combat Outlook's text color change in dark mode! #emailgeeks #emailpeeps #TakeThatDarkMode

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

And some follow-up good news: apparently Litmus was quite out of date, so the first tip *should* be fine to use inside VML as well. I'll need to review and add a note to the article after I double-check.

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

👀
[via @jitendravyas]

[Amit Agarwal @labnol]

You'll soon be able to create Mailchimp style rich email templates inside Gmail

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@superhighfives I will... never sleep again!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@megbosh Ah thank you! It's honestly all just mad experimentation, trial and error. I'd say it's mostly from digging around in Word-generated HTML and yes, looking into the Office and OOXML specs. And some of it is spider senses I guess, built up from ~10 years of fighting with Outlook!

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@emailfromnaomi Thanks Naomi! I love your website, I was looking at it the other day via Slack. Also chefs kiss 😊

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@megbosh Sooooo many humungous tests each containing about 5000 moonshot experiments 😂

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@blackendhonesty Awesome, my pleasure! 😊

[Nicole Merlin @moonstrips]

@pompeii79 Thanks Anne! 😊