Setting up signatures that I have control over

[Jay]

Hi. I have Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 for
Students and Teachers and I have been trying to set up
Signatures for Outlook ever since I got it. In the past
when I had Outlook I could make several signatures and
click on a readily accessable button to have it
automatically inserted. It was fast and easy. Now it
seems that setting up signatures is a complex project.
The only time I get a signature is when I reply to a
message and then the same signature is inserted in the
reply. I would like to CHOOSE the signature like I was
able to in the past.

In my menu bar I have ALL ENTRIES listed and when I go to
SIGNATURES only two show up and it isnt even one of the
signatures that I set up. It is the registration
information with my name on it.

Also I have two POP3 accounts set up though Outlook if
that has any impact on this but it shouldn't!
I have searched high and low and looked in the help files
with no luck. Could you please help me out with this??

 

[Jay]

Okay-

I figured out the problem. Apparently Outlook defaults to
using Microsoft Word as it's mail editor. In the
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 I had to go to
TOOLS>OPTIONS>MAIL FORMAT> then uncheck using word as my
editor. Also, I'm not sure if it had an impact or not but
I also went to Explorer and went to TOOLS>INTERNET
OPTIONS>PROGRAMS and made my HTML editor NOTEPAD.

Once I did all that I now have control over my
signatures. I wish that they had something in the HELP
file telling people this!! Thank you Newgroups and the
people that exchange bright ideas!