Signatures in Outlook for XP

Does anybody know how to make so different accounts in Outlook have their own default signature? It seems to me like you can set a default overall for all accounts, but you cannot set a default for each account individually. When I use different e-mail addresses I would like to have different signatures by default. The way it is now I have to change the signature manually. Thanks for any help.

ok...

in Outlook Express you can actually specify for which acct gets which
signature. This is because Outlook is meant to really be used with only 1
email address/acct, given the calendar and all that other stuff.

But this is the easiest way to get around it. I use it this way:

In Outlook > Tools > Options > Mail Format > Signatures is where you
create your signatures. Create as many as you need, and name them
according to your domain name or however you will know which is which.

When you've created the signatures, click OK to return to the Mail Format
window. You will see above the Signatures button, the options to choose
which signature goes for a New Message and for Replies. LEAVE BOTH OF
THESE SET AT <NONE>. Click OK to close the options.

Now open a New Message, and go to Insert > Signatures. You will find the
names of each signature you just created. Select which signature you wish
to apply to that particular message, and BAM....there it is.

Like I said, I use it this way, so it's easy for me. I don't think there's an
easier way.

Hope this helps!

/unflux

Okay, this might work, but I am not sure I have that option because I am using Outlook integrated with Word. When I goto Insert on an email that im writing there is no signature option that i can click

How do I unintegrate Word, and what is the difference if I don't have Word integrated? What capabilities do I lose/gain? Do you know?

if you really like using word as your email editor [personally I hate it], then
you are stuck.

Not using Word means very little really. You just won't see the Word
interface, but an actual 'email' one. Try it...

On the Mail Format screen from Options, you will see a checkbox saying
"use Microsoft Word to edit email messages." Simply uncheck it and restart
Outlook. Then open a New message.

/unflux

Okay I tried that, but now everything appears to be double spaced by default. You know how I can fix that?

Oh and now the signature button is there like you said it would be, I think Word messes all that up.

everything?

the main text and the signature? or just the signature? Do you create your
new messages in html format by default?

I test this out just now and didn't get any spacing issues. Also, do you have
any default fonts set for the types of emails written?

/unflux

Well I notice that when I insert the signature everything is double spaced. My font is Verdana size 10 for that, and yes its in HTML. To fix it manually I went up to Format->Style and put it from Paragraph style back to Normal style and then all the double spacing goes away. Any ideas?

ok for some reason your default Style is Paragraph instead of normal. Let
me see if I can find how to change the default setting. Shouldn't be hard...

/unflux

Okay I have still been looking haha

Okay weird, maybe it had something to do with the fact that I had made those signatures when I had word integrated. I just remade the signature which looks exactly identical in the signature editor, but now when I insert the signature it stays in Normal mode. Thanks man.

ok - yeah

that's actually it...I remember now. Word, since it's a word processor,
handles html-text differently than an html editor would. Word reads the
coding < br > at the end of each line where it should be a &nbsp.

glad it worked!

/unflux

I have a variant question on this theme. Does anyone know of a registry hack or other method of relocating the signature location from

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

to another location? Microsofts site is devoid of intelligent information on this subject so I any helpful hints would be appreaicted.

TIA

i believe that's actually hardcoded. My company before wanted to store
everything possible on the server, including our signatures with
outlooks. crzy bastards....

anyway I spent many useless hrs looking for info on it and found nothing.
That was a few yrs ago with Office2k tho...might be different with XP,
but my hunch tells me no.

Sorry, but i'm not much help on this one...good luck.