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In Outlook, you can create one or more personalized signatures for your email messages. Your signature can include text, links, pictures, and images (such as your handwritten signature or a logo).

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Or, select a tab option below for the version of Outlook you're using.What version of Outlook do I have?

Note: If the steps under this New Outlook tab don't work, you may not be using new Outlook for Windows yet. Select Classic Outlook and follow those steps instead.

Create and add an email signature in new Outlook for Windows

  1. On the View tab, select  View Settings

  2. Select Accounts > Signatures.

  3. Select  New signature, then give it a distinct name.

  4. In the editing box below the new name, type your signature, then format it with the font, color, and styles to get the appearance you want.

  5. Select Save when you're done.

  6. With your new signature selected from the list above the editing box, go to Select default signatures and choose whether to apply the signature to new messages and to replies and forwards.

  7. Select Save again.

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