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From: Lisa Snider
Date: Mar 4, 2019 6:34AM

I tried this about a year or so ago. I added alt text to an image in Outlook and then copied and pasted it, and I believe it stayed with it. That may, or may not, work today.

Cheers

Lisa

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> On Mar 4, 2019, at 7:16 AM, Miles Row < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I done it a few years ago for the email signature and this was through
> editing the alt attribute in a picture editing programme and then uploading
> the image.
>
> As this was a while ago I cannot remember the programme and I do not know
> how this would work in the body of a message, but it can be done.
>
> Kind regards,
> Miles
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> Miles Row
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>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 18:44, Howard Kramer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> There doesn't seen to be a way to add alt text to an image in a gmail
>> email. I've googled for help on this with no luck. Anyone know of a way to
>> address this?
>>
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