Signatures and/or *Stationery in Email

How To Create Signatures
in Outlook Express

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Page Updated: August 15, 2009

    Putting a "signature" into an email is a handy and quick way to close your email messages without having to type the same information over and over. The signature can be anything you want from simple text to pictures and hyperlinks. This page will attempt to show how you set up a signature or even a "stationery" page using Outlook Express/Live mail.

Outlook Express/Live Mail

This shows how to set up a simple text signature in Outlook Express.

Outlook Express

  • Open Outlook Express

  • Tools-->Options-->Signature
  • Check the "Add signatures to all outgoing messages" option

  • Click "New" and give your signature a name.

  • Select "Text" and type in your text.
  • In this case, I used:

    Have a great day!
    Dwight

 

 

 

 

Live Mail

  • Open Live Mail

  • Tools-->Options-->Signature
  • Check the "Add signatures to all outgoing messages" option.

  • Click "New" and give your signature a name.

  • Select "Text" and type in your text.
  • In this case, I used:

    Have a great day!
    Dwight

 

 

 

 

This image show the options menu in Live Mail

My Signature in
Outlook Express

When I click on the "New Message" button, this is what my new signature looks like.  As you can see, I set my font for Comic Sans MS and size 12. You could also specifya font color, The space will expand automatically .

My Signature in
Live Mail

Setting Your
Font Preference

  • Set your font preferences by clicking
  • Tools-->Options-->Compose
  • In the "Mail" line, click Font Settings
  • Set your font preference and then click OK

Create an animated .gif signature file

For Use With Outlook Express/Live Mail

It is fun to use an animated signature file (like this)  in your email messages. You could just "insert" the image into the email message using the Insert menu, then the "picture" command. See this page for more...

But if you plan to include your signature file with many or most of your email messages, it would be easier to create a stationery Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) page that includes your animated .gif image file. See the Stationery Page for more information about this.

Okay, so what do I need?

  • If you want to create your own animated .gif signature file, This Google search page has many pages with tutorials and video examples.
  • Here is one program you can use for making animated .gif files: $9.95 (Note: I have not used this program)

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  • If you want to create your own animated .gif signature file, This Google search page has many pages with tutorials and video examples.
  • Here is one program you can use for making animated .gif files: $9.95 (Note: I have not used this program).

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