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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming Add-Ins / October 2009separate signatures for different accounts
Seems siple enough, having two email accounts, eack having a differnt signature, and different sender email address, but you cant configure Outlook to do this!@#$ under tools-options-mail format-signatures, you can create multiple signatures, but you cant assign them to different email accounts. They all go to the default account specificed in the right hand side of this config form. So now, when you create an enw email, its gets the default sig. You can change the account using hte account button, but then the sig dissapears. Why cant each sig be associated to a separate account? Cheers Grant That's available since Outlook 2003.  SignatureBest regards Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en> Am Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:39:46 -0700 (PDT) schrieb NZDeveloper: > Seems siple enough, having two email accounts, eack having a differnt > signature, and different sender email address, but you cant configure [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Grant On Oct 15, 9:47 pm, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org> wrote: > That's available since Outlook 2003. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > Grant maybe thats what Microsfot thought, but it doesnt work! There are heaps of posts on numerous forums of the difficulty in Outlook handling multiple signatures. The problem is that when you create a new message, it adds the default signature. You can then use the account button to change which account is used to send it, which changes the sender and return email address, but it also clears the signature, so now you have to manually add the correct signature. So sending is now a multiple click affair with a concious thought process to make sure its going out with the right sender details. I have found one commercial add-in called Split Personalities, but thats pretty clunky. Anyone else found a suitable add-in, or do I need to write my own? Cheers Grant Changing the signature only works if you have set Word to be the email editor. If your sig is removed, Word should be your email editor. Are you sure you have a sig defined for the account (new mail, or reply-forward)? SignatureBest regards Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en> Am Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Grant Hammond: > On Oct 15, 9:47 pm, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > Grant On Oct 17, 6:24 am, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org> wrote: > Changing the signature only works if you have set Word to be the email > editor. If your sig is removed, Word should be your email editor. Are you [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] > > > Grant Outlook 2007 uses Word as the editor, so you cant "set Word as the editor", it jsut is hte editor. There is still a fundamental bug in Outlook, that you CANNOT assign separate signatures to separate accounts. Whats the point in being able to manage multiple accounts in one session withouth being able to distingish them with different signatures!@#$ Sure you can create multiple accounts, and signatures, but you can only assign one signature to all accounts, so as soon as you want to create a new message from a secondary account, you have to pick the account using the "Account" button, this then drops the signature from the message, so you have to manually a.s the appropriate signature. Thats about as dumb as it gets! Are you ttelling me everyone out there using Outlook 2007 with multiple accounts is doing this?????? Hopefully someone out there has a work around for this fundamental bug Cheers Grant Fine, now we assume you're using OL07. If it doesn't work for you, there's a bug. But in general it works, as it does on all of my system. > Are you ttelling me everyone out there using Outlook 2007 with > multiple accounts is doing this?????? No, I don't. Please read my answers again. SignatureBest regards Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:35:59 -0700 (PDT) schrieb NZDeveloper: > On Oct 17, 6:24 am, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 86 lines] > > Grant On Oct 27, 7:16 am, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org> wrote: > Fine, now we assume you're using OL07. > [quoted text clipped - 106 lines] > > > Grant Sorry, yes I'm using Outlook 2007. One point I have jsut thought about is that I think OL2007 provides for a new PST file format, but still supports the older pst format. I suspect my PST files are still the older format, so I will make new pst files and test with a new profile using the new pst files to make sure its not that. Cheers Grant |
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