Email signatures, to turn on or off used to be easy! What happene

[Jim White, University of Utah]

I am an administrative professional at the University of Utah. I have used
Outlook and Outlook Express for years. I just got a new PC with the latest
version of Outlook on it. It seems I can no longer turn my signature on and
off without going through a five-step process. I have asked three Outlook
"Experts" in my Office and all are puzzled by this new version and the loss
of the "Insert a Signature" function. It used to be easy. Now the "help"
section says to create a signature, I must go through this elaborate process,
and its either on or I have to go through the legthy process to turn it off.
Suggestions or something I have missed?
Here is what the "Help" Instructions say:
To add a signature to a single e-mail message
on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box,
click the name of the e-mail signature you want to use. Under Create your
e-mail signature, select the signature text you want to add to your e-mail
message, and then press CTRL+C.
Click Close, and then click Cancel.
In the e-mail message, place your cursor where you want the signature to
appear, and then press CTRL+V.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you are using Word as your email editor (aka WordMail), you will not have an Insert | Signature command like the regular Outlook editor. If you want to be able to insert a signature into a WordMail message manually, you can create an AutoText entry for each signature. You can then insert them with the Insert | AutoText command.

Or, create multiple signatures the normal way (Tools | Options | Mail Format) and make one the default. If you want to use a different signature for the current message, right-click the signature that Outlook inserted automatically. From the pop-up menu, select either the name of the signature you want to use or E-mail Signature to create a new one. I personally prefer this technique. This is also the technique you need to use if you want Outlook 2003 to automatically change your signature when you switch accounts on an unsent message.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers