Creating a Signature File in Outlook with Image Ready: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. We also have a way to take our original gif image and put it into and email message as a signature. So, let's go ahead and see how we do that. In order to create a signature, I'm going to use Microsoft Outlook it handles the creation of signatures a lot better when you're using graphical images, like a gif file. So, I'm going to go ahead and click on tools, and there I will find options and the window that opens up on the third tab, there is something there that is called mail format. We click on that, and if you go down to the bottom you will see that there is signatures menu area, where we can make some selections. And we don't have any signatures selected at the present time. Let's go ahead and create our signature. So we are going to click on the signature button, and now as you can see we are going to create our signature. It's going to be a new signature file if we had created previous signature files, another words maybe a business card, maybe there is a business card you want to send to certain people and there is a different type of business card with a different type of image that you want to send to other people. You can change, (you will see a list of signatures here) and you would be able to change the signature for that particular email. So we are going to go ahead and create a clown signature. Now I will click on Next. Now we're faced with a blank box where we should create our signature. Now, by default the outlook program is looking for a text signature. So, we are going to be using graphical image, so I want to edit this particular area not to create a text. I could start typing in text here and that is what would appear in my signature, but instead I want to have a way to import my graphical image and in order to that. In order to do that I am going to have to go down to Advanced Edit. When I click on advance edit my program tells me that it is going to open up and editor. In our case it is going to be Microsoft Word. So I am going to click on yes. We see that Microsoft Word opens up. It is already working in the name of the file that I put in as a signature. Clown Signature, and it gave it a .htm extension, because the program Outlook has already communicated to Microsoft Word that when it opened up program that the file needed to create a signature is going to be .htm file."