Hi Jeffrey,
Anne recently described adding signatures to E-Mail messages with
VoiceOver's drag and drop. You can read her post in the Mail Archive
for this list at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg15805.html
(Re: Signatures preferences accessible?)
The VoiceOver drag and drop action that you need to use may be buggy,
so read down the thread with the Control-N access key combination to
see Donna's reply and Anne's comment. There's an old thread where
signatures in mail was discussed, along with the issue of drag and
drop. Anne's post is more succinct and up to date, but if you want to
read the old thread from last year about creating a signature in mail
for background, it's at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01116.html
Again, you'll want to use the access key combination Control-N to read
the next post in the thread (or Control-P to move back to previous
post) to read through to the discussion about the drag and drop issue.
Another way to get around this drag and drop business of setting up
signatures would be to use Snow Leopard's new text expansion
features. This is described in an article titled "Using Snow
Leopard's built-in text snippets in Mail.app":
http://www.hawkwings.net/2009/11/15/using-snow-leopards-built-in-text-snippets-in-mail-app/
This basically describes a way to select a "Text Replacement" sub-menu
option under the "Substitutions" option under Edit in mail to define a
string to be used for some predefined key of your choosing. For
example, you could decide to have a phrase like "ssig1" to get
expanded into the lines for your name and home address (which you
typed into TextEdit, and then copied and pasted into the replacement
field). Then, whenever you typed that phrase in mail, it would expand
to your replacement definition (and you could use it anywhere in mail,
not just in the signature line). You're basically using the System
Preferences > Language & Text menu features under the Text pane to set
up these replacement strings, but the steps described in the article
working from the Edit menu in Mail will take you to these options.
This article has a good description of other text replacement features
under Snow Leopard, and is worth reading.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 25, 2010, Jeffrey Shockley wrote:
Hi,
Could someone please let me know how to add a signature to the end
of E-Mail messages in Mail? I'm sure it's possible, but I just can't
figure it out since it looks a little confusing.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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