Your email signature can send a strong professional or promotional message. This is true for text, but images can often convey meaning even faster and in a richer manner. In Outlook, adding a graphic or animation to your signature is easy.

 To add an image to an email signature in Outlook:

 ·        Create a new message in Outlook using rich HTML formatting.

·        Design your desired signature in the body of the message.

·        Position the cursor where you want to insert a picture.

·        Use Insert | Picture… to add the image or animation.

·        Make sure the image is a GIF, JPEG or PNG file and not too big. Other formats such as TIFF or BMP produce files too big. Try reducing the image size or resolution in a graphics editor and saving the graphic as a JPEG if the image file size exceeds, say, 150 KB.

·        After inserting the image, you can highlight it and add a link, for example.

·        Press Ctrl-A to highlight the entire body of the message.

·        Press Ctrl-C.

·        Now select Tools | Options… from the main Outlook window’s menu.

·        Go to the Mail Format tab.

·        Click Signatures… under Signatures.

·        Click New….

·        Give the new signature a name.

·        Click Next >.

·        Press Ctrl-V to paste your signature in the Signature text entry field.

·        Click Finish.

·        Now click OK.

·        If you have just created your first signature, Outlook has automatically made it the default – automatically inserted – for new messages. To use it for replies as well, which I recommend, select it under Signature for replies and forwards.