How Can I sign e-mail

Calling all Outlook Express 6 Guru's.

I would like to place my handwritten signature in the body of some e-mails, can someone tell me if this possible, and if so how to go about it.

Thank you Guru, in advance............

 

Do a Google search for "Outlook Express handwritten signature" for some interesting results...including some freeware that says it will do exactly what you want.

 

The answer to your question is yes.
But if you open OE's Help file, you will learn that the signature must be either a text or HTML file. If that is the form your signature already is in, then all you have to do is follow the instructions for adding signatures to email which are
"To add a signature to outgoing messages

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Signatures tab.
To create a signature, click New and then either enter text in the Edit Signature box or click File, and then find the text or HTML file you'd like to use.
Select the Add signatures to all outgoing messages check box.
Notes

To use different signatures for different accounts, in the Signatures area, select the signature, click Advanced, and then select the account you want to use the signature with.
To use a signature on individual messages only, make sure to clear Add signatures to all outgoing messages. When you compose the message, on the Insert menu, point to Signatures, and then click the signature you want to use. "

If, however, your handwritten signature is not already in text or HTML form then follow these instructions:

"Scan your signature. Put the scan in a graphics viewer. Make any changes (such as cleaning, sizing, color, etc.) and Save as a .jpg file. (Give the file a name, such as Signature.jpg.) (If you have the option of saving as a .htm or .txt file directly from the graphics editor, do that instead and if you use method A below, skip to A2 below.)
Now you have two ways to set up your signature as an Insert in Outlook Express emails. (B is the simpler to set up, but it takes several more clicks to use and there may be problems in using it. Once A is set up, it is very simple to use.)
A
1) Open Notepad.
Make a HTM file from your signature.
This is how to do that. Let's say you have saved it in .jpg form in C:\Mysignature. Open Notepad and copy this
<img src=" "></img>
In between the Quotation marks paste the full path to the image file you want to use. Based on the instructions so far that would mean you would enter <img src= "C:\Mysignature\Signature.jpg "></img> into Notepad.
Now save the file as
Signature.htm. Save as "All files ", and put it into the same folder as the .jpg file. (In this case, Mysignature, but you can chose the folder just as long as both signature.jpg and .htm are in the same folder.)

2) Open Outlook Express. Look in the Toolbar.
Tools>Options>Signatures Tab>Click New. At the bottom of the page choose File and click on the Browse Button. Browse to the location of the .htm file you have created.
Look at the top of the page. Choose "Add signatures to all outgoing messages" or leave that blank if you want to only insert the signature into selected messages as you compose them.
Click Apply. Click OK.
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B
Another way is to use the "Insert|Picture" option on the Insert menu of Outlook Express. In the line titled Picture Source you enter the location of the .jpg file you created per the first paragraph above. (If your signature is an animated .gif file, Insert|Picture is the only choice you have.) This is potentially the simplest method, but in some versions of Outlook Express before OE6 you may get an error message. It also means you have to enter the location of the .jpg file each time. If you use this method and get the error message, go to the OE main window, click Tools|Options and on the Security tab, change the Security Zone setting to Internet rather than Restricted. For maximum security, don't forget to change that setting back when you are through adding the signature to an email. "

 

Fantastic, thank you very much Welshjim for the very detailed instructions, no small effort putting that together; and no doubt others will find them very interesting and usefull.

Just goes to show, we have some really helpful and caring people on this forum.

Thanks again Welshjim.

 

Old_Salt_Oz--Thanks for your kind words. Hope your Signature is up and running!!

 

Re: "Thanks for your kind words "

Just stating the facts Welchjim, you (and the other) Guru,s are fantastic when it comes to helping others, who like me are trying to come to grips with thinking in Zeros and Ones.

I have not yet had a chance to apply your recommendations, but the logic looks pure and simple. I got a call not 3 minutes after I read and replied to your message, and have just arrived home after a little urgent delivery of several hundred kilometres, so will tackle it late tomorrow after another 560 Km run.

Thanks again to you and all the other fantastic folk here.