Have a [look at this][1] answer. I see the text ![Phone Types on Outlook.com][2] rather than the image he is trying to display. But when I clicked "Edit" to fix his formatting, I found that the image *was* correctly displayed in the preview pane (see below). ![enter image description here][3] Either this formatting should work in neither the live question nor the preview pane, or it should work in both. [1]: https://superuser.com/a/497977/4377 [2]: https://superuser.com/questions/497129/windows-8-google-contacts-sync-doesnt-sync-custom-fields [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/oij76.png