Emulate Stack Overflow's inline code span formatting in Microsoft Outlook

It's a pretty dirty solution, but one idea is:

A. Put some dummy text in my email signature that has the formatting that I want:

B. Skip right to step #5; use the format painter to apply the formatting in the dummy text to the text in the email.

• Hint: Double-click Format Painter to change the format of multiple selections in the email.

C. Delete the dummy text.

• Or better yet, include the formatting as a legitimate part of my email signature, so it would be constantly available, and I wouldn't forget to delete the dummy text.

Unfortunately, padding the text with a space at each end is not done automatically (step #4). This isn't a deal-breaker though.

I wanted to do the same as you and my solution was to create a new style called "Code" with the following formatting:

Font: (Default) Consolas, 10 pt, Font color: Black
    Pattern: Clear (Custom Color(RGB(242,242,242))), Style: Linked, Quick Style
    Based on: Normal

The only downside I have with it is that when I highlight some text and apply the style then occasionally the font doesn't shrink to 10pt and stays at 11pt. When you're mixing this with 11pt Calibri then it's too big so you have to manually change the size.