Outlook Low Vision: Email Signature

Vikki: Hi, I'm Vikki Vaughan and today we'll explore how to create a signature in Microsoft Outlook. This workshop is intended for users with low vision. If you use a screen reading program, be sure to check out our screen reading version of this workshop.

You know, emails are like conversations. We each have our own voice, our own accent, our own style of expressing ourselves. Since emails are written communication, it's a little more challenging to make them sound warm and personal. Adding a signature to an email is a method that many people use to let their personality shine through.

Outlook provides us with tools to customize our signatures in various ways, from the basics like selecting a favorite font style, to including an inspiring thought, a mission statement, or a picture. We can make our emails our own by adding a signature. Let's start off in a new email. In the ribbon at the top of our page, we begin in the Message tab.

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