There it is, the first option under “Writing email”.Ĭhoose Formatting, font and signature and you’ll see lower on the resultant page an input box for adding a signature. That’s a lot of choices, but what you want is actually lower down on the options page.įurther down on the list, you’ll see composition and reading options: That’s what you’ll want to click on after you try out different colors! Then select the name of the signature file to insert from the drop-down menu. If you have already created a signature, you can insert it by clicking the Signature button in the Include group. Easy enough!įurther down on the menu is “Options”. Click the Insert tab in the Ribbon of the Message window when you are creating a new e-mail. Notice I’ve already changed mine from purple to orange by simply clicking on the color swatch.

The fun thing you can do here is change the color and accents on your page. What you want, however, is the gear icon adjacent to the smiley on the top right.Ĭlick on the gear icon and a bunch of options show up. It’s a bit of an odd icon, but the little smiley on the top right doesn’t actually bring up a tiny window full of emoticons but rather displays your address book, as you can see:

To start, you’ll want to log in to your account. So let me show you how to add a custom signature to your composition window in but also point out a couple of useful areas and features along the way too. We’ve also had email around for long enough now that the core functionality is very well understood so you should find a ton of similarities between Google’s Gmail, Yahoo Mail and. Just as importantly, it’s integrated into Office 365 so it’s easy to access your Word online documents and other content through OneDrive, etc. , also known as Email, is a second (third?) generation webmail interface from the Microsoft team and it’s quite well done, quite elegant.

How to add a signature in outlook 2017