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I found a snippet of code that allows me to target clients that have outlook 2007 or higher.

<!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->

Is there anyway to target everything but outlook or outlook 2007 & higher? If you're giving an answer please give working code as I've tried

<!--[if ! mso 9]> <!--[if ! mso]> <!--[if !(mso)]>

None of the following worked in Gmail with firefox.

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    Conditional comments are a Microsoft non-standard (though standards-compliant) implementation, allowing people to directly address flaws in the Microsoft family of html browsers/clients. As such, there's not usually an easy way to target other vendors' products with !IE or !mso syntax. Commented May 12, 2011 at 18:09
  • thanks, perhaps you could suggest the logic on how to hide a specific table row from outlook? Commented May 12, 2011 at 18:15

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Try this:

<!--[if !mso]>--> content targeted at non-outlook users goes here... <!--<![endif]-->
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To prevent statements being stripped in outlook.com, change <!--> to <!-- --> - check my answer for example
This doesn't work on outlook.com in a browser. Both the outlook content and non outlook content show up at the same time.
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To prevent statements being stripped in outlook.com, change <!--> to <!-- --> -

<!--[if !mso]><!-- --> All Except MSO 07-13 <!--<![endif]-->
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This trick was stripping the content in the gmail app and the android mail app, strangely enough ...
This 'solution' was described in more detail here campaignmonitor.com/forums/topic/7544/…
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Super late response, but hopefully this will help someone. This worked for me:

<!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----> <p>I'm not Outlook 2007/2010.</p> <!--<![endif]-->

Edit: Answered above, but extra tags on the IF statement are to hide the tags from being revealed in IE7/8.

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That's is a solution:

<!--[if !mso]><!--> content without use in IE or Outlook <!--<![endif]-->

I think so you can first resolve in IE, Outlook and denied with this for putting the elementss for all differents clients for email without Outlook.

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Microsoft defines a way to write conditional HTML that will be revealed in those clients that don't understand Microsoft's proprietary "conditional comments":

<![if !mso]> HTML meant for non-Outlook clients <![endif]>

They call it a "downlevel-revealed conditional comment", though it's not actually a comment at all, since comments start with <!--. Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer process the conditional statement (!mso evaluates false in Outlook), while other clients ignore the unrecognized tags. See Microsoft's documentation on conditional comments.

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Conditionals in comments like <!--[if gte mso 9]... is IE specific. Will not work in other browsers.

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That's not how you have to use it. Instead it is, for everything except Outlook - normal routine, for Outlook - do specific. Not the other way around like you're trying to do.

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That's true but this type of comment has its uses. Sometimes we do need to force Outlook to turn a blind eye on certain code, not other way around. For example, I discovered that compatibility tag caused trouble on Outlook: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />, I had to comment it out with "not-Outlook" comment. But in general, for template code, you're right.

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