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

  1. Click on the Start button
  2. Open Notepad
    1. In XP click on notepad in the left column
    2. In 95 & 98 click on Programs>Accessories and Notepad
  3. Create a signature file with at least you name and email address.
  4. Save the file as "SIG" noting the folder to which it is saved NOTE Notepad will automatically add ".txt" to the file name.
  5. Close Notepad
  6. Open the mail window in Netscape
  7. Click on Edit>Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
  8. Select the correct Account name
  9. Click the Choose button and select the correct file from the files.
  10. Click Attach this signature.
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Thunderbird

  1. Click on Write.
  2. In the message part of the window, create the exact signature you wish. You can use any of the formatting that you desire.
  3. Click on File>Save as>File.
  4. 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.)
  5. In Thunderbird, click on Tools>Account Settings.
  6. Click on the account name for which you wish to use the signature.
  7. Choose the signature you wish by clicking on the Choose button
  8. Locate the file with your signature that you saved and select it.
  9. Click on the Open button.
  10. Click on the checkmark "Attach this signature."
  11. Click "OK."

     

 

Outlook Express

    1. In Outlook click on Tools>Options and then Mail Format.
    2. Click on Signatures.
    3. Click on New.
    4. Name the file.
    5. Click next.
    6. Create the signature. To change the font, select Font. To place the signature in the middle of the message, click paragraph...
    7. When done, click "OK"
    8. Click OK again.
    9. Click Apply. (If you wish to change the signature click on the down pointing triangle after the box following "Signatures for new messages."

     

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Windows Mail (2007)

  1. Click on Tools>Options.
  2. Click on the Signatures Tab.
  3. Click on New
  4. Under text, create your Signature.
  5. Click OK
  6. Click in the box, Add Signatures to all outgoing messages.
  7. Click OK

 

QWest MSN

  1. Go to Help & Settings>Email settings>writing emails
  2. Select signatures
  3. Type in your signature information
  4. 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.)
  5. Click on Save Changes

Created May 9, 2009

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