If you want to add nice professional signatures to your emails, the Shared Email Templates add-in has a quick and easy solution for you. You can create multiple email signatures, choose the default ones, and decide when to add them to the message body: either when you use your personal templates or when the add-in pane is open in your Outlook.
To get a quick Signatures 2.0 cheat sheet, click the button below.
When the Shared Email Templates app shows a signature preview in your default browser, use the right sidebar to pick a design for your signature and enter the necessary details the into signature fields.
Tip. If you prefer a custom color theme, select any of the available themes, open the dropdown menu under Colors again, and select Customize selected theme.
If you're going to add links to custom fields and want them underlined, select the Underline links in custom fields checkbox.
If you'd like to have a signature that looks like a business card, select the Apply card-like style checkbox. If you prefer rounded corners, please keep in mind that in some versions of Outlook they might be shown as square ones.
These are available sections:
If another field is needed in this section, select Add field.
If another field is needed in this section, select Add field.
You can have more social media links listed here. You just need to select Add links.
If another field is needed in this section, select Add field.
You can delete fields that are not needed by selecting Remove field on the ellipsis menu on the right of a field.
You can delete an entire section by selecting Remove all fields.
If you want to apply text formatting when filling signature fields, use keyboard shortcuts.
Windows | Mac | |
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Bold | Ctrl+B | Command-B |
Italic | Ctrl+I | Command-I |
Underline | Ctrl+U | Command-U |
Line break | Shift+Enter | Shift-Return |
Tip. If the details that you need for the General or Contact details section are available in your organization's Azure AD, you can save your time by loading them in bulk.
Alternatively, you can fill each field individually. You can either enter the necessary details manually or retrieve them automatically from the following sources:
If you prefer your own custom HTML to available signature templates, go to the HTML tab and select Edit as HTML.
Note. As soon as you start editing the signature HTML code, the sidebar with the Design and Fields tabs will disappear, and it won't be possible to use signature templates.
You can have two default personal signatures: one for new messages and one for replies and forwards.
To get a signature added to new messages when you insert your personal templates (My templates), go to the Signatures tab, right-click the signature and select Default for new messages.
To get a signature added to replies and forwards when you insert your personal templates (My templates), go to the Signatures tab, right-click the signature and select Default for replies/forwards.
You can also specify default signatures by going to the Signatures tab > My signatures. You just need to select the necessary signatures from the two dropdown menus in the lower part of the pane.
If you select the Automatically insert my default signatures when the pane is open checkbox, the corresponding default signature will be automatically added to the message body when you open the add-in pane or when the add-in pane opens because it's pinned in your Outlook.
Once default signatures are selected, they are added to the message body based on your settings.
To make changes to a personal signature, go to the Signatures tab, right-click the signature and select Edit in browser.
To remove a personal signature, go to the Signatures tab, right-click the signature and select Delete.
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