Creating a Signature File in Outlook with Image Ready: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. So we're going to go ahead and now create our signature in this blank document. The way we do that is we want to insert out picture, and we're going to insert it from a file. I click on 'insert', go down to 'picture' and I click on 'file' and we'll look for our gif. image. And I'm going to go to where I had saved my original gif. image. And we see that we were looking at 'clownfinal.gif' So I'm going to click on that and click on 'insert'. And I see that my image appears in this document we created. Now Microsoft Word does not handle the gif. image the way it's supposed to be handled. In other words, you don't see the image changing on the screen and you shouldn't think that the image has been changed or altered in any way. It's still the same gif. file that we were working with, it's still the same animation. But you will not see a change inside the Microsoft Word document. So now I'm going to go ahead and click on 'file' and I'm going to 'save as' and I'm going to give it another, a different name, a new file. And I will call it 'clown animation' and I will save it. Now just notice that all signatures, in order for the email program to pick it up it has to be saved inside the Microsoft Outlook signatures folder and that's found in 'documents and settings'. And then the name of the, the user name of the, of the computer. 'Application Data', 'Microsoft', and then you'll see a folder 'signatures', that's where all the signatures are held. And only files that are held in that signature folder can be placed into the, into the emails because that's the only place 'Outlook' will recognize the files. So I'm going to go ahead and click on save, my clown animation. And it automatically saved it as an htm. file. And now I have, I can go ahead and close this document."