Transcript
Most of the time, you're going to want to include your contact details at the bottom of an email message and you can set that up by use of an email signature. And most firms will actually have standard templates for this that they want you to use. So I'm gonna show you how to set this up. So first of all, create a new email. So just do Control + N to create your email. And we're going to go to the Insert menu and select Signature. Now, at the moment, there's no signatures in here, so we need to click on Signatures so we can create one. So click on Signatures, we're gonna click on New and we're going to give this signature a name. And you can obviously have more than one. So I'm gonna create one called FE Demo. Now, you can now start typing, okay? So you can type anything you want to in this box here and you've got lots of control. But what you'll probably do most of the time is copy it from a template. So I have a template set up elsewhere, so I'm just going to select that signature from the template and I'm gonna paste it into here and that way I can get the logo right and everything else. So generally, you'll do that rather than build it from scratch. So the signature's in. I don't need to think about that anymore. Now what I want to do is decide when it's included in a message. So I need to select which email address it applies to. So I'm gonna select this fe@outlook.com email and do I want to include it with new messages, replies and forwards or all messages? So I think I'm just gonna go with new messages for now. Yep, FE Demo, and replies and forwards, I don't want that actually 'cause otherwise your email chain can get a bit unwieldy. So that's that done. Hit OK. Now, because I've already started writing this email, the signature hasn't appeared. I can force it in here by selecting Insert Signature and then select FE Demo. Then the signature will appear here. Now, if I close down my email, and I'm in a different email address, so I'm in my Gmail account at the moment. I do Control + N to create my new email. I would have to, if I wanted to include the signature in here, I'd have to go Insert, Signature, FE Demo as I just showed you. If I change it up here to my outlook.com email, which is the one that's set up for the automatic signature, because I've changed it at the top, it doesn't a automatically appear. So no big deal. Again, you can just obviously go to Signature and select it from here. But if I created the email when I had the correct email address selected, so I can do Control + N now, then this time, this signature is automatically included. So just bear that last bit in mind there. But that's very, very straightforward. That's how you add a signature to your email account.