e-mail signatures should always come from Outlook, not Word

[Guest]

I don't understand why my Outlook e-mail signatures aren't available to
e-mails.

If I create a signature in Outlook, I want to use it with e-mail. I do not
want to use some other signature for Word documents.

Please correct this bug.


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Peter Kryszak
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook e-mail signatures *are* available to e-mail messages. Explain why you think they're not, including your version of OUtlook and whether you are using the built-in editor or Word to edit messages.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I don't understand why my Outlook e-mail signatures aren't available
to e-mails.

They are if you do it correctly. See
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/signatures.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your replies. I fixed it after googling the problem, but I'm not
sure why the default behavior is this.

I just got a new PC and XP and Office 2003 Pro were freshly installed for
me. I added two signatures in Outlook. I created a new e-mail and found
that the signature that was added was the generic user information from Word
that the IT dept had added and I didn't see a way to insert the signatures
that I had defined in Outlook.

I found through some searching that if I was using Word for the e-mail
editor then I have to create the signatures in Word and not Outlook. Outlook
is the e-mail application and Word is a document application.

My complaint is that I defined the signatures in Outlook and whatever
"editor" I use, the signature should come from Outlook. There should be no
limitation to the signatures in Outlook, except based on the message format.

--Peter

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The signature interfaces in Outlook and Word 2003 create files in exactly the same place -- the user's Signatures folder. Maybe IT has a template that was adding some autotext. That's not what Office 2003 uses for email signatures.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
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Administrators, Power Users, and Developers