hi there jamie here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today today i want to
show you how you can create and add a digital signature to your microsoft word and have it
saved so you can quickly enter it at any time so for example i could have a letter that i'm writing
if i go up to insert and then look over to the right to quick parts over here i can go to auto
text and this is one that i created as an example and it just took me a few minutes to do this and
i click on it and it goes in and i can edit this at a later point and i'll show you how to do this
this is done by taking a picture just from a piece of paper with your signature
on it bringing into word and i'm going to go through all these steps today on teachers tech
so before i get started inside microsoft word i'm going to take a quick picture using my phone of my
signature so what app i'm going to use is just one drive and then it's going to sync over to
my computer in seconds i can just grab it from my computer you could use google drive for the same
thing you can take a picture within that and if you're using desktop for google drive uh you could
go ahead and retrieve it so i'm using onedrive and i'm just gonna open this up and you can see at the
bottom there is a camera i'm going to press that and i don't want to capture a document in this
case if you look at the bottom i'm going to scroll over and then just use this as a picture and you
try to avoid shadows and everything too but i'm just taking a quick uh photo just like this and
i can do some cropping here if i want to so and if you have a different way of getting this image
that's fine i'm just showing you this way that i'm doing it i'm gonna go ahead and confirm that
and hit done because uh now hit that check mark up at the top right hand corner and it is saved in my
onedrive and this will sync over to my computers uh so i'm gonna go ahead and end this right now
and move over to word if you're using the app to take the picture like i did make sure your
computer whether it be onedrive or google on your computer that it's in the same account that you
took the picture on your phone or else you're not gonna see it over there so make sure both accounts
are locked in the same one now i'm going to go ahead and start what i want to be my signature
and i'm going to add some text first so i'm going to keep this pretty simple and then i'll add it so
this is just a blank document and then i'm going to add it to the end of the letter to show you too
so let's say if i just want to say thank you at the end just like this and i'm going to add a
space a couple spaces because this is where my signature will be where i'm going to put
that picture maybe i want another space i can change this after also but i want to put a line
you might not want to line but in this example i am going to use a line so i'm going to go up
to insert and use shapes here and i'm just going to choose line like this and draw it across make a
straight one across like this and we'll say this is long enough and i don't want it to be blue
so i'm going to go to the shape outline and turn it to black all right so that's going to be my
where i'm going to put my picture i'm not going to put it in yet but i'm going to go below this
here and this is where i'm going to put some more information so like my name i'm going to print my
name uh below so maybe i have a title or something and this is just an example one so i'll just put
youtuber i could be teacher uh and we could put maybe your address or phone number so i'll just
use an example uh phone number here just like this uh you can put whatever information you want
now the last thing what we need to do is add that picture that we put in so where is this going to
be i'm going to go i'm going to click up here so this is where i want it to be inserted and i'm
going to go to insert like this and picture and it's from this device so remember that picture
that i took on one on the onedrive app synced over to my computer because it was logged into the same
account and here it is here i you'd be able to so i'm just on my computer here uh and you'd be able
to see here's my one drive here that i'm in but if you have things like google drive installed
you could grab it from there i'm gonna grab this picture insert it and right away you're thinking
wait jamie this is way too big microsoft word allows you to do a lot of formatting it allows
you to clear up the background as well so first of all i want this much smaller and i can i change
this as i go to i'll just leave it like that for now the next step is right now the pictures uh
the layout the wrapping isn't what i want i want this to be behind the text
so what i'm going to do is i can click here and get change the text wrapping or i can go up to the
top and i can choose behind the text either place i can get to the same one it's also here uh so it
moved it to behind now i can still select this and move it around but it's behind the text so i could
put it to where i want maybe it's a little bit smaller i can move it to however i would like on
it this is where i'm going to leave it and now you're thinking the background isn't very good
we don't want to show up like that word allows you to correct this so if i select this image again
you can see that thing it's highlighted if i go up to picture format we have corrections now the
correction is going to be different for everybody depending on the paper that you wrote it on or
the contrast um the shadows on it so again if you get a good signature without shadows and
it's nice and crisp it might work a little easier too but i'm going to go to corrections and you
can see right away we have all these options i'm going to go and choose this last one right here
and look at this it did all the background is gone out of there uh you can even format it more so if
i go to corrections again here you can see if i went to picture corrections and it opens up the
format picture maybe i wanted more contrast you can kind of play with this a little bit uh to
get it we have artistic effects here too so if i i wanted to look at a few different ones and i went
over to artistic uh i you know what i don't know if i like the way i think i see a little bit more
i and i don't know there he went and changed it so that's a little crisper and darker just like that
so i think this is going to work for my example and like i said i could move these lines around
change things a little bit more you can go through and edit this and make multiple signatures too so
all i need to do now is highlight what i have and you can see when i highlighted i just selected at
the top right before the thank you and and dragged my mouse down to the end everything's highlighted
if you go up to insert now and go over to quick parts over in quick parts we have auto text and
we have this option of save selection to auto text gallery so i'm just going to go
like that and you can see it says name thank you so maybe i just want this to be sign uh
and we'll say say site one because if you had multiple ones you could change your name depending
on what you can name it whatever you want so i'm just going to go ahead and hit ok
so what this does now if i go back to quick parts at any time i can go to auto text and it's right
here if i just click on this it just puts it right in here and how do you go ahead and edit
these auto text and or maybe delete them if you go back to your quick parts in auto text here
this is the one i have created in here i could right click on this and i could go back and edit
the properties and it pops up this block so if there's different things maybe i want to call it
a different thing if i go back to quick parts again and i'll right click on this one
we have organize and delete if i want this this is the one right here you can see it here
i can go ahead and hit delete and it is gone so if i hop over to a different document now let's
say like a letter i can select where i want to go go back to my quick parts up top go to auto text
and select it and it can be quickly put in so remember you can have a few different
signatures there depending what type of letter that you're addressing on this or maybe even
different emails or ad addresses that you have that you want to give people uh the other thing
i just want to point out before i leave today uh inside i'll just go back to a blank document here
uh going back to the picture and i'm gonna insert this one more time here i just want to point out
there was the remove background that i didn't do i used corrections i i find it works a little faster
for what i was doing there but there is the remove back ground option here you just have to kind of
go through i find it a little more it takes a little bit more time where you could go through
and trace uh different things out and put it through but i always find i miss a little bit
and i have to go back and forth a lot more so just wanted to point out there are different
ways you can remove backgrounds in microsoft word so i hope you like this tip about how to
create a digital signature and save it so it's reusable over again and over again in microsoft
word let me know if this works for you and what else you want to learn in microsoft word thanks
for watching this time on teachers tech i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials