Thank you for your good wishes.

As for the suggestion, if you knew me in "real" life, you would know that my
responses mirror how I interact with people with whom I work as well as the
public at large. While it is largely true that the written word is no
substitute for face to face communications, trust me that the tone I use
when speaking to someone face to face ALWAYS has a smile and a wink. Too
bad that it doesn't show here in news groups.

Just out of curiosity, for what product were you an MVP?

s/ Miley eg

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Jim D asked:

| Ok - well, that explains it then...so I guess I better start liking
| to use Word as my email editor lol!
|
| And, now, I'll make a kind suggestion back to you as an MVP (having
| been an MVP once in my lifetime) - perhaps you might make your
| "point" known, w/out sarcasm. The line about it being a "moot" point
| was unnecessary. This was my first visit to this forum and your first
| reply was taken w/a grain of salt (even though witty sarcasm oozed
| between the lines), but seeing your second sarcastic response, I feel
| it my duty to suggest that you might consider a class in Customer
| Service responses to improve your skills in that area. That is a
| kind, mere, suggestion, not one to flame you or deride your
| character.
|
| Overall, thank you for your information, I have so noted the upcoming
| change.
|
| Have a great and gracious day, Miley,
|
| Jim D
| former MVP
|
|| 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 reading.
||||
|||| 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