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When
creating signature files you will find that there are many options and designs that
you are able to create. Three things you will want to keep in mind are:
Uses
of Signature Files
Email
is convenient, effective, and delivers information fast, but its informality can
often weaken its effectiveness. Including contact information in your email messages
can make them more professional and give them greater impact. You can
automatically include contact information with a signature file - a small text
file that your email client attaches to the end of an email message.
Creating
a Text File for your Signature
To include a signature file in your email messages using
Netscape Communicator or Outlook Express, you'll first
need to create a text file that includes your signature information. You can use
any text editor, for example Notepad or WordPad. You can save the text file
anywhere that's convenient on your hard drive, but your email client folder is
probably a good place that you won't forget.
What
to Include in a Signature File
Some good ideas to include in your signature file would be:
Name,
Title, E-mail
address, URL (If you or your company have a web site)
Inserting the Test File Into Your E-mail
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In Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu and choose
Options. In the resulting dialog box, click the Signature tab. Under Edit
Signature, select the file option and either type the directory path and the
file or click the browse button to locate your new signature file. Note:
With version 5 and later, you also have the option of creating a signature file
within Outlook Express itself. Just choose the text option under Edit
Signature and type in the text you want.
You can configure Outlook Express to either include the signature in every
message or you can add a signature on a message-by-message basis. If you
choose to insert it on a message-by-message basis, from your New Message window go
to the Insert menu and select Signature.
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In Netscape, go to the Edit menu and choose
Preferences.... In the Category list box select Mail & Newsgroups, select
the + beside this to create a drop down menu and select Identity. Navigator will
display a Preferences dialog box with an Identity panel. Go to the Signature
File text box and either type the directory path to the file or click the
Choose... button to locate your new signature file. After you locate the file,
click OK, and Navigator is ready to use your signature file.
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A more creative
type of signature known as ASCII art would be something like this picture of
Charlie Brown which is made up of key strokes on the keyboard:
Here
is few links to more examples of what you could possibly do:
http://www.chris.com/ascii/
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~pdw9469/sigs.html
http://www.winn.com/bs/signatures.html
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