I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to assign a signature to each of
the email accounts I have so that when I change the account in a new
message (via the Accounts button on the toolbar) the appropriate
signature appears in the new email ...

I understand that it is necessary to ensure that that the default
account has a signature assigned to it. Also, that a signature (even a
blank or dummy ) should be assigned to ALL of defined email accounts
for auto-signaturing to work.

BUT .. mine STILL DOES NOT work !!!
It simply picks up the signature defined for the default account and
never changes it.
I have stopped and restarted Outlook many times ... checked and
double-checked the assignments ... all to no avail. Does anyone know
if there is perhaps another angle I can check to make this work ?

thanks in advance.

Easiest way to do this is to use Insert signature. Set up the list of
signatures, set all accts sigs to None and use Insert each time. The only
acct that will automatically use signature is the default and the it won't
change when you change the sending acct. so setting it to None is better than
having to edit the signature each time.

"Paul Cartier" wrote:

> I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to assign a signature to each of
> the email accounts I have so that when I change the account in a new
> message (via the Accounts button on the toolbar) the appropriate
> signature appears in the new email ...
>
> I understand that it is necessary to ensure that that the default
> account has a signature assigned to it. Also, that a signature (even a
> blank or dummy ) should be assigned to ALL of defined email accounts
> for auto-signaturing to work.
>
> BUT .. mine STILL DOES NOT work !!!
> It simply picks up the signature defined for the default account and
> never changes it.
> I have stopped and restarted Outlook many times ... checked and
> double-checked the assignments ... all to no avail. Does anyone know
> if there is perhaps another angle I can check to make this work ?
>
> thanks in advance.
>

Paul: If you're still tracking this............
I just finished looking up the answer for the same problem.
It was working at home the way I wanted it, but not at work.
Answer provided by Roady [mvp], in this ng.
"Set Word 2003 as the e-mail editor"
Hope this helps.
"Paul Cartier" wrote:

> I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to assign a signature to each of
> the email accounts I have so that when I change the account in a new
> message (via the Accounts button on the toolbar) the appropriate
> signature appears in the new email ...
>
> I understand that it is necessary to ensure that that the default
> account has a signature assigned to it. Also, that a signature (even a
> blank or dummy ) should be assigned to ALL of defined email accounts
> for auto-signaturing to work.
>
> BUT .. mine STILL DOES NOT work !!!
> It simply picks up the signature defined for the default account and
> never changes it.
> I have stopped and restarted Outlook many times ... checked and
> double-checked the assignments ... all to no avail. Does anyone know
> if there is perhaps another angle I can check to make this work ?
>
> thanks in advance.
>

Hi BEEJAY,

Thanks for your response ...
Problem was solved some time back by doing precisely what you describe.
I was pointed to Roady's answer by Brian Tillman via a repost ...

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BEEJAY wrote:
> Paul: If you're still tracking this............
> I just finished looking up the answer for the same problem.
> It was working at home the way I wanted it, but not at work.
> Answer provided by Roady [mvp], in this ng.
> "Set Word 2003 as the e-mail editor"
> Hope this helps.
> "Paul Cartier" wrote:
>
>> I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to assign a signature to each of
>> the email accounts I have so that when I change the account in a new
>> message (via the Accounts button on the toolbar) the appropriate
>> signature appears in the new email ...
>>
>> I understand that it is necessary to ensure that that the default
>> account has a signature assigned to it. Also, that a signature (even a
>> blank or dummy ) should be assigned to ALL of defined email accounts
>> for auto-signaturing to work.
>>
>> BUT .. mine STILL DOES NOT work !!!
>> It simply picks up the signature defined for the default account and
>> never changes it.
>> I have stopped and restarted Outlook many times ... checked and
>> double-checked the assignments ... all to no avail. Does anyone know
>> if there is perhaps another angle I can check to make this work ?
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>>