Using Multiple Signatures

Here’s a great tip if you like to send messages out to different kinds of people and would like to use different custom signatures for different types of recipients. For example, when you are composing a message to someone at work, you probably want to include your name, title, website address, company name, phone extension, or other work-related information. Likewise, when you are composing a message to your family or friends, you may want to provide a more light-hearted signature or, at the very least, include different contact information.

While the BlackBerry software does not provide for managing and using multiple signatures, you can easily achieve the same effect by making use of the BlackBerry’s great Auto Text feature:

1. Make sure you clear the existing default signature text from the Desktop Manager. (See the previous section for how to do this.)
2. On the home screen of your device, go to Options ➪ Auto Text.
3. Create a new Auto Text entry for each custom signature you want to have.

For example, I have an Auto Text entry for my company, Bachmann Software & Services, which I named "bss." It has my name, my company name, and my website URL in it. Now,
whenever I want to include this signature on any outgoing business messages, at the bottom of my message I just type the characters “bss” and BlackBerry automatically substitutes the signature I defined. I could, of course, create as many different signatures as I wanted, each with its own Auto Text keyboard shortcut.

Remembering to type the Auto Text shortcut at the end of your e-mails can take a little getting used to, but once you have done it for a while, it becomes pretty automatic.

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