All email messages should have a signature. Because it is so easy to forget this piece of etiquette, email software has made it possible to create a signature once and have it automatically added to each message you send.
Netscape
- Click on the Start button
- Open Notepad
- In XP click on notepad in the left column
- In 95 & 98 click on Programs>Accessories and Notepad
- Create a signature file with at least you name and email address.
- Save the file as "SIG" noting the folder to which it is saved NOTE Notepad will automatically add ".txt" to the file name.
- Close Notepad
- Open the mail window in Netscape
- Click on Edit>Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
- Select the correct Account name
- Click the Choose button and select the correct file from the files.
- Click Attach this signature.
Thunderbird
- Click on Write.
- In the message part of the window, create the exact signature you wish. You can use any of the formatting that you desire.
- Click on File>Save as>File.
- Give the file a name and save it in a folder where you can find it. (A good suggestion is to create a folder somewhere names Signatures.)
- In Thunderbird, click on Tools>Account Settings.
- Click on the account name for which you wish to use the signature.
- Choose the signature you wish by clicking on the Choose button
- Locate the file with your signature that you saved and select it.
- Click on the Open button.
- Click on the checkmark "Attach this signature."
- Click "OK."
Outlook Express
- In Outlook click on Tools>Options and then Mail Format.
- Click on Signatures.
- Click on New.
- Name the file.
- Click next.
- Create the signature. To change the font, select Font. To place the signature in the middle of the message, click paragraph...
- When done, click "OK"
- Click OK again.
- Click Apply. (If you wish to change the signature click on the down pointing triangle after the box following "Signatures for new messages."
Windows Mail (2007)
- Click on Tools>Options.
- Click on the Signatures Tab.
- Click on New
- Under text, create your Signature.
- Click OK
- Click in the box, Add Signatures to all outgoing messages.
- Click OK
QWest MSN
- Go to Help & Settings>Email settings>writing emails
- Select signatures
- Type in your signature information
- Choose whether to add your signature to all messages, or message by message. (If you select the latter, when you are creating the email click on More>Insert Signature.)
- Click on Save Changes
Created May 9, 2009


