Outlook vs Word - The Battle Of The Signatures#

Funny, I regularly use Insert -> Signature in Outlook to insert, err well, a signature. Now normally the first thing I do on a new Office installation is to turn Word off for composing emails (why? because a new message comes up more slowly, there's more bloat in the generated html, it's packed with features that aren't necessary for emails, ... so it's more like: why not?) but this time with Office 2003 I decided to wait a little while to see if maybe it became a "good thing" to use after all.

You have more options now, for example to make Word reduce the html bloat I mentioned. And it seems to come up pretty quickly so after all it seems not to be that bad anymore. But now it appears that when you use Word, you don't get an Insert -> Signature menu anymore! You do have a lot of signature stuff in the extra Options dialog in your message but that are just Word's default signature settings. You can't use it to actually insert one.

So I turned Word off again. Sorry guys, better luck next time ;-)

Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:59:32 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
This is how I solved it:
1) In Outlook create a "blank" signature with let's say "---" as content.
2) Set this as the default signature for new mail
3) Open a new message and you'll see the "---" at the bottom. Right click on those and pick your preferred signature.

BTW: This answer raised another question.
I tried with several ALT+255's to just have a blank signature.
This shows up in Word (CTRL+A) shows it but I don't get the signature selection when right-clicking.
How does Word make the distinction ?
Jaydee
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