How to add a signature to a template

[Guest]

I wish to add my personal signature to a template, I thought of writing it
and then scanning but get lost from there, any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Scan your signature into a graphics app, clean it up as needed, crop to
minimum size, and save in a print-friendly format such as EPS or TIF. Then
use Insert | Picture | From File to insert it in your template (In Line With
Text will be best). You might also want to save the picture as an AutoText
entry for ease of insertion in other documents.

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[Guest]

How do you save the electronic signature as an Auto Text entry?

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[Charles Kenyon]

You can save any graphic, including a scanned signature as an AutoText entry
by selecting it and adding it to your AutoText. See create or change an
AutoText Entry in help. Note, you can save AutoText in shared files. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
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[Guest]

Is there any way you can secure the signature? I need to email the form and
have three different people secure sign the document.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

You can save any graphic, including a scanned signature as an AutoText entry
by selecting it and adding it to your AutoText. See create or change an
AutoText Entry in help. Note, you can save AutoText in shared files. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm. To answer your
other question, you can't secure it. Anything that can be viewed or printed
can be copied, one way or another. You could convert the document to PDF and
not permit copying or printing, but users could still take a screen shot.
You can't make a digital *graphic* signature any more secure that an actual
written signature (which can be scanned); there are other types of digital
signatures (encryption) that are more secure.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Charles Kenyon]

No. Not in Word. Not really in any computer application although pdf is
somewhat more secure. If it can be seen, it can be copied.

For security, you need digital signatures, that is encryption signatures.
Look up pretty good privacy.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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