Create and insert a signature in Outlook for Mac
The signature attached to your emails can be customized to reflect your personal tastes, your company logo, or a particular mood. Signatures can contain text, links, and pictures; for example, you can create a signature for a business email that includes your name, job title, phone number, and company logo. Here's an example:
You can add signatures manually to individual email messages, or you can have a signature automatically added to every message that you send.
Create an email signature
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On the Outlook menu, select Preferences.
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Under Email, select Signatures.
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Double-click Untitled, and then type a name for the signature you created.
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Select to add a new signature.
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In the Signature editor, type the text that you want to include in your signature. You can:
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Apply formatting such as font, font style, font size, font color, or highlighting. Select the text before applying any formatting.
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Add photo, logo or picture to your signature by inserting Pictures from Photo Browser or Picture from file
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Add a hyperlink to your portfolio or company website. Choose Link , type the Text to Display and Address and select OK.
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Insert a table.
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After you are done creating your signature, close the editor window.
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Close the Signatures window.
Add a signature to an email or calendar invite
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Click in the body of your message.
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On the Message tab, select Signature, and then choose a signature from the list.
Add a signature automatically to all messages
You can set a default signature for each of your mail accounts.
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On the Outlook menu, select Preferences.
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Under E-mail, select Signatures.
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Under Choose default signature, select the account for which you'll set a default signature.
If you have multiple accounts, you must set the default signature separately for each account.
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If you want to add a signature to all new messages, set the New messages option accordingly.
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If you want to add a signature to all messages you reply to or forward, set the Replies/forwards option accordingly.
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Close the Signatures window.
Create a signature
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On the Outlook menu, click Preferences.
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Under E-mail, click Signatures.
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Click Add .
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Double-click Untitled, and then type a name for the signature.
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In the right pane, type the text that you want to include in the signature.
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Do any of the following:
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Apply formatting such as font, font style, font size, font color, or highlighting
Select the text, and then on the Format menu, click the option that you want.
Add a hyperlink
Position the cursor in the signature where you want to add a link, and then on the Format menu, click Hyperlink.
Add a picture
Drag a picture from the desktop to the position where you want it to appear in the signature
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Tip: If you want, you can create multiple signatures and have Outlook insert them at random into e-mail messages. To include a signature as one of these random selections, select the check box in the Random column next to the Signature name.
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Close the Signatures dialog box.
Note: If a signature is added to a plain-text message, any formatting or pictures are not used. Hyperlinks are converted to plain text.
Create well-designed text with a logo for use as a signature
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Open Word.
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On the Tables tab, under Table Options, click New, and then click and drag across two rows and columns.
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Select the top two cells, click the Table Layout tab, and then under Merge, click Merge.
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Type your name in the top cell.
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To format your name, select the text, and then on the Home tab, under Font, click Increase Font Size and Font Color .
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Drag your logo from your desktop into the lower left cell.
Tip: If you want to resize the logo, select it and use the sizing handle.
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In the lower right cell, type your address and phone number.
Tip: To make sure that Outlook will not add any additional lines between your address and phone number, press SHIFT + RETURN to move to the next line in the table cell.
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To add your company web site, on the Insert menu, click Hyperlink.
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In the Link box, type the address for the link, and then in the Display box, type the text that you want to appear in your signature.
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Rest the pointer on a column border until appears, and then drag the column until the table is the size that you want.
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Select the table, and on the Table tab, under Draw Borders, click Borders, and then click None.
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Save the document, but don't close. Go on to Use the signature you created in Word.
Use the signature you created in Word
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Select the table you created in Word, and then click Copy .
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Open Outlook.
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On the Outlook menu, click Preferences.
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Under E-mail, click Signatures.
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Click Add .
A new signature appears under Signature name with the name Untitled.
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Double-click Untitled, and then type a name for the signature. This name does not appear in the signature in your messages; it is only for your reference.
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In the right pane, paste the signature that you created in Word.
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Close the Signatures dialog box.
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