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Creating an Email Signature in Outlook for Windows

Last modified 9/19/2023

The Outlook email client allows you to create and use a personal signature, which will appear at the end of outgoing email messages. The signature can include text, images, a logo, links to a website, and more. You can choose to have the signature on all outgoing mail automatically, or choose which messages include a signature.

Important!

If you have an Illinois State Office 365 email account, and you use Outlook as your email client, but, you also use the Outlook Web App at Office365.IllinoisState.edu, you will need to create a signature in both locations.

Create an Automatic Email Signature

To create and automatically include a signature on new messages:

  1. Select File in the Outlook app.
  2. Then select Options.
  3. Select the Mail category on the left.
  4. Select the Signatures button and a box titled Signatures and Stationery will appear (Figure 1).

    Figure 1:
    Signatures button from Options menu
  5. To create a new signature, press New under Select signature to edit box on the E-mail Signature tab.
  6. Type a name for your New E-mail signature (Figure 2).

    Figure 2:
    Naming the new signature image example
  7. Enter the information you would like to appear in your signature in the Edit signature box.
  8. Select the OK button.
  9. Select the OK button on the Outlook Options box.

The signature will now automatically appear at the bottom of new messages, when using your Outlook email.

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