Personalizing Your Messages
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Adding a Signature to Your Outgoing Messages
Many people like to include a personal "signature" at the bottom of their outgoing email messages. You can create a signature, and Yahoo! Mail will automatically add it to each message you send. Write your signature before you begin composing your first message.
Here’s How
Click the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.
The General options page opens.
On the left side of the mail options page, select the Signature option.
The Signature option opens on the right ready to accept a plain text signature.
If you want to create your signature using rich text, select Show a rich text signature from the pull-down list.
The text formatting toolbar displays above the input box. Use these tools to format the text of your signature.
Tip: How your signature actually appears to your friends depends on each person’s email service and the browser or application they use to read your message. If you think most of your friends use email services that don’t support color and graphics, or if your friends just don’t want to receive fancy messages, stick with plain text. It displays in any email system.
Type your signature in the input box.
This could be your name, a business name, a favorite quote, anything you like. Just remember that this will be attached to the bottom of all your outgoing messages. Make sure it’s something you want to share with everyone that you send email to.
The following example was written with rich text turned on.
Close the Options tab to save your changes. Clicking another Mail option on the left will also save your changes.
The next time you compose an email, you’ll see your signature in the text input box. You can type your message above it, below it, or anywhere in between.
Because the signature is text within the message pane, you can easily change it if you like. Your edits affect the signature text for this message only and won’t change your permanent signature.
What’s Next: Removing Your Signature From Selected Messages
OK, the truth is, you don’t have to include your signature on every message. It’s your choice.
If you don’t want a signature going out with a particular message, simply delete the signature from the text of the message before you send it.
To turn off the automatic inclusion of your signature, return to the Signature option page and select the Don’t use a signature option. Your signature is still stored on this page but Yahoo! Mail doesn’t attach it to your emails until you’re ready to use it again.
Words to Know
- Plain text: text that has no formatting defined; how this text appears (for example, its size) depends on the web browser or email application that you use.
- Rich text: a format that lets you change font style, add color, and more to your outgoing message text.
- Signature: a short text file that you create (through the Options page) and Yahoo! Mail attaches to the end of your outgoing email messages. The file might contain your name, position, a favorite quote, or whatever you want to convey with every email message you send.