Have you ever thought about adding a more personal touch to your e-mail messages? If you are a business professional, you can take advantage of having a personalized signature automatically included at the end of your messages that includes your contact information or company logo.

You can also take it a step further and create a signature that conveys the tone of your business and reputation or add color and style to catch someone's attention.

For friends and family, you can add a warmer, friendlier feel to an online message by using fancy fonts, art, and animations.

Create signatures for your messages

• About signatures in messages
• Create a signature for messages
• Insert a signature in a message
• Change a signature
• Stop putting extra line spaces in my signatures

Customize signatures

• Use clip art to customize your signature
• Insert scrolling text in an e-mail message
• Add an animated graphic to your signature

Liven up signatures with different fonts and characters

• Use Word as your e-mail editor
• Add emoticons to messages
• Insert a check mark or other symbols
• Animate text
• Change the color of text
• Free fonts: Find out how to get them

Crabby's quick course on using fonts

• Crabby's Font Facts 101: Some basics
• Crabby's Font Facts 102: Best practices
• Crabby's Font Facts 103: Designing with fonts

Help improve security by using digital signatures

• About digital signatures
• Get a Digital ID
• Digitally sign messages
• Verify a digital signature