The next version of Outlook will use Word by default as the message editor
so your suggestion is a moot point. (not really full blown Word but the
"essence" of Word.)

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Jim D asked:

| Miley,
| I'm using 2003 -- but I'm not sure what you mean by "right click on
| the signature and choose another". Do you mean when the new or reply
| email message window appears in Outlook 2003? If so, that didn't work
| for me. And, are you meaning if I'm using Word 2003 as my email
| editor? I opened up a new email w/Word 2003 as my email editor and
| yes, that option is available in there...however, I prefer to use
| Outlook 2003 as my email editor and I'm making that suggestion for
| that product, not the Word email editor. If I'm still missing it in
| my Outlook program, please point me in the right direction.
|
| Thanks for your response.
|
|| What version of Outlook are you using? If 2003, simply right click
|| on the signature and choose another. I have over 50 signatures
|| (yeah, I am a packrat!) and I can swiftly change what signature I
|| use in a few seconds. (Note - you must be using Word 2003 for this
|| to work.)
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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|| After furious head scratching, Jim D asked:
||
||| Even though I can create multiple signatures for new/reply/forwarded
||| emails, the option is one for new &/or one for replies/forwards or
||| none. However, if I create a business signature, a business reply
||| signature, a friends/family signature, I either have to accept the
||| same for all similar functions (i.e. -- replies, whether business or
||| family must be the same signature). What would be nice is to have
||| the ability to do the following:
|||
||| In the email contact, specify what signature I'd like to use for
||| new, replies/forwards, &/or all, etc.
||| *For example, my sister sends me an email. My current setting in the
||| Signatures setup is to reply w/ "First & Last Name". However, my
||| sister does not need my last name. Sure it's simple enough to scroll
||| down and erase my last name after completing my email, but that
||| negates the pupose of the automation. OR, I could opt for "no
||| signature" in the Signature setup and insert it from the Insert drop
||| down menu, which is unnecessary movement. OR, I could use the Insert
||| drop down menu to insert the signature for my family and then erase
||| the automatic "First & Last Name" signature I originally set up in
||| the Signatures setup menu - one more time, why automate if I have
||| partially negate.
|||
||| **My suggestion is to provide a place in the Outlook contact
||| information section for me to assign specific signatures for
||| individual contact members. Using my sister example again. In my
||| sister's information contact card, I should be able to assign a new
||| message signature and a reply/forward message signature for her
||| card. Similar for every contact in my address book. However, if I
||| choose NOT to assign a signature for certain contacts, the
||| signature I assigned in the setup menu under Options would be
||| applied to emails as stipulated for new, reply, forward, etc.
|||
||| ***If this could not be added to the Contact info card, then I'd
||| suggest being able to create a rule for this scenario. Rule starts:
||| 1) sister name is in the From section of a received email - check
||| that condition, 2) reply with specified signature - thus allowing me
||| to select which signature I'd like to apply to replies/forwards to
||| my sister. Should be simple to set up for each contact I'd like to
||| apply specific signatures to their emails.
|||
||| ****Last, if the above are NOT possible, then create a dedicated
||| keystroke for signatures. Therefore, I'd select "None" for
||| signatures to be applied to new or reply/forward emails. Once an
||| email had been completed, I'd bring up the signature options and
||| click to insert which signature was appropriate.
|||
||| This would be a great feature to have for the signatures portion, as
||| I love having as much automation as possible or simplified
||| keystroking -- less mouse movement. Typing and then having to move
||| to the mouse and then back to the keyboard is not efficient.
|||
||| Let me know what you think of my suggestion(s) OR if I am unaware of
||| an automation already in place.
|||
||| Thanks