Brian, you are not missing anything -- Outlook 2003 does not have a Signature
choice as did Outlook 2000. In 2000 you just opened Insert, hit Signature
and it would insert the signature you had designed prior. If you had more
than one design, you would be prompted to select the one you wanted. Simple.
Not so simple, however in the ever-frustrating 2003.

Seems like what Brian Tillman is saying is that in Insert you will see an
AutoText choice. Click that and it opens a box that does have Signature and
Signature Company as choices, but surprise, neither are the signature text
that you created, but like you discovered, only puts your name or your
company's name at the curser; it DOES NOT put the signature text that you
created in Email Options. In other words, totally useless.

You would think that one of the most common items most frequently needed
would be an icon on the toolbar along with the other dozen icons, most of
which you hardly every use.

Also in 2000 you could set a default option so that every new email you
open, the signature would already be inserted without you having do to
ANYTHING! I can't find how to do that.

As for Microsoft's famous Help Wizard -- try entering the words "Insert
Signature" -- a whole list of stuff comes up, none of it telling you how to
insert a freakin signature in an email. Useless.

I have also been trying to figure out how to get a background picture to be
a default stationary, but no luck. In 2000, Background in Format went right
to your directory where you selected the background picture. In 2003, it
takes four additional mouse clicks to find the Picture tab, i.e., more
complicated, not less.

So if anyone knows how to get your signature to insert with a single mouse
click, or better yet, have it already inserted into your new email every
time, I really like to hear it.

Frank


"bmiller" wrote:

I think I am having the same questions as Brian T. but sorry I do not seem to
get the message, so let me try another way - In Outlook 2003, is there a
"signature" button on any tool bar. For the life of me, I cannot seem to
find it. I have set up a few signatures (I did this by hitting tools,
options, mail format). IN 2000, I could hit the signature button, select
which signature was appropriate, and I was done.
What am I missing????
thanks,
Brian M.
"Brian Tillman" wrote:

sewell wrote:

I'm using Outlook 2003.

Again, are you using Word or the Outlook editor? There is no Signature on
the Insert menu in Word. In Word you must use AutoText. There is a
signature button on the Tool Bar in the Outlook editor as well as a
Signature item on the Insert menu.

I've seen the option on other people's
computers - but mine isn't there (pull down the full Insert menu and
there isn't a signature option there). If I go to Autotext there is
a line called Signature but that just inserts my name not the
Signatures that I created in the options.

So, you are using Word. See if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/signatures.htm
--
Brian Tillman

"Frank" wrote in message
...

Brian, you are not missing anything -- Outlook 2003 does not have a
Signature
choice as did Outlook 2000. In 2000 you just opened Insert, hit Signature
and it would insert the signature you had designed prior. If you had more
than one design, you would be prompted to select the one you wanted.
Simple.
Not so simple, however in the ever-frustrating 2003.

Outlook 2003 does have the choice to add the signature and not by AutoText,
but it makes a difference whether you're using the Outlook editor or Word as
the editor.

Seems like what Brian Tillman is saying is that in Insert you will see an
AutoText choice. Click that and it opens a box that does have Signature
and
Signature Company as choices, but surprise, neither are the signature text
that you created, but like you discovered, only puts your name or your
company's name at the curser; it DOES NOT put the signature text that you
created in Email Options. In other words, totally useless.

When using the Outlook editor, there is a Signature button on the Standard
toolbar. One simply clicks this button to get a choice of which of the
signatures you've defined with ToolsOptionsMail FormatSignatures. Word
also can use what's defined in the options, but the behavior is different.
First, each account you have must have a default signature defined, even if
it's only a blank line or just two hyphens on a line by themselves (so you
can see where the signature goes). When composing a new message, you can
then right-click in the signarure area that contains the default signature
and choose which of the signatures you've defined should be included via a
popup. All this is described on the web page whose URL I cited. Here it is
again: http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/signatures.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]