Guest Author - Chris Curtis

Outlook allows you to create multiple unique signatures to be inserted at the bottom of your email messages. These signatures can contain both text and graphics. When creating signatures, you choose which signature to insert as the default signature. Obviously, that would be the one you would use most frequently. Prior to Outlook 2003, most users would select no default signature when using multiple signatures and then use the Signature Picker to select the appropriate signature for each email.

Outlook 2003 eliminates the signature picker. It is necessary for the user to select a signature as a default as there is no function in Outlook 2003 to insert a signature once the email form has been initiated.

The question is what do you do once the default signature has been inserted and it's not the signature that you want to use? Actually the procedure is rather simple once you know how to do it.

To change the signature to an alternative signature:
• Right click somewhere in the inserted default signature. A shortcut selection will appear.
• Select the signature of your choice. The default signature will be replaced by the alternative that you select.

The process of creating a signature in Outlook 2003 has not changed.