---
title: "Force rich text on Gmail out-of-office messages"
description: "Is your collaborators' signature not displayed correctly in their Gmail out-of-office messages? Signitic can now automatically force rich text."
url: https://support.signitic.com/en/articles/9561117-force-rich-text-on-gmail-out-of-office-messages
collection: "Troubleshoot Gmail issues"
updated: 2026-11-10
language: en
alternates: [fr, pt, it, de]
---

# Force rich text on Gmail out-of-office messages

Is your collaborators' signature not displayed correctly in their Gmail out-of-office messages? Signitic can now automatically force rich text.

By default, Gmail stores out-of-office messages in **plain text**. As a result, when Signitic pushes an HTML signature into the auto-responder, the formatting is lost. Your employees then send out-of-office messages without a visual signature, or with a degraded signature.

Until now, each user had to manually enable "Advanced formatting" in the Gmail settings, a tedious task at company scale.

Signitic now includes an option in the Google Workspace connector that **automatically converts** out-of-office messages from plain text to rich text (HTML) at the time the signatures are pushed.

## Enable this option

### **❶** Access the Google connector settings

Go to your Signitic administration area, then to the Google Workspace connector settings.

### **❷** Locate the "Gmail out-of-office rich text" section

You will find a new section entitled **"Gmail out-of-office rich text"**

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### **❸** Select the desired option

Two options are available to you:

-   **Force rich text for Gmail out-of-office messages** _(recommended)_ — Signitic will automatically convert the format of out-of-office messages to rich text with each signature push.
    
-   **Do not modify the format of Gmail out-of-office messages** — The format of the out-of-office message remains as is. If a user has configured their autoresponder in plain text, Signitic will not modify it.
    

### **❹** Save your changes

Click on **Save** to apply the change. The option will be taken into account from the next signature push onwards.

## FAQ

**Does this option activate or deactivate the automatic responder?**

No. Signitic only modifies the message format (plain text → rich text). The status of the responder (enabled/disabled) is not affected.

**Is the content of the out-of-office message modified?**

No. Only the format changes. The text written by the user remains identical.

**Does the option apply to all users?**

Yes, it applies to all users synchronized via the Google Workspace connector when pushing signatures.

**Which option should be selected?**

If you use Signitic to manage signatures in out-of-office messages, we recommend enabling the **"Force rich text"** option to ensure optimal display of your HTML signatures.