Email signatures are a great subtle form of advertising, bringing you new business through personal networking. People who correspond with you usually need your web address, phone fax and mailing address, so it also saves a lot of typing.

For Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird users: (free email programs available from Mozilla.org)

To create an automatic "signature" for your email:

open My Computer

C: drive

Pull down menu FILE, choose New... Text Document

In the "Notepad" that comes up, type the lines of the signature you want to appear at the bottom of your emails. You will be able to edit this again in the future.

Click File, Save As, and save it as C:\signature.txt or something like catherine_email_signature.txt

(The point is - you must be able to find the file in the next step - so saving it in C:\ and naming it something recognizable makes it likely you can find it.)

You can now minimize or close the Notepad window.

In Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird - click the item ABOVE "Inbox"

On the right, click "View Settings for this Account"

Now look to the right again in the lower part of the new window that comes up. You should see "Attach this signature"

Click Choose button, then find the signature file we created in the previous step, and double click it.

Click OK.

Send yourself a test message to see how it looks!