{"id":46162,"date":"2019-08-26T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=46162"},"modified":"2019-08-25T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T03:34:09","slug":"gmail-email-signature-reply-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-email-signature-reply-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Email Signature Reply Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_signature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail Email Signature Reply Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_signature.jpg\" title=\"Gmail Email Signature Reply Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail Email Signature Reply Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Revisiting Email Signatures today, specifically <a target=_blank title='Gmail' href='http:\/\/www.google.com'>Google<\/a> <a target=_blank title='Gmail' href='http:\/\/www.gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> ones, and following on from <a title='Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial' href='#gespt'>Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial<\/a> we have a dual purpose blog posting &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>involve the recent <a target=_blank title='Inkscape' href='https:\/\/inkscape.org'>Inkscape<\/a> work, specifically the &#8220;business card&#8221; work of the recent <a target=_blank title='Inkscape Vector Image Editor Business Card Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/inkscape-vector-image-editor-business-card-tutorial\/'>Inkscape Vector Image Editor Business Card Tutorial<\/a>, as the (Cairo PNG) image uploaded to Gmail as the basis of a Gmail email signature &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>management of threads of Gmail email &#8220;threads&#8221; involving a signature and making use of the &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; syntax possibilities, as we thank <a target=_blank title='How to stop the Gmail signature piling up at the end of a long thread?' href='https:\/\/support.xink.io\/support\/solutions\/articles\/1000228799-how-to-stop-the-gmail-signature-piling-up-at-the-end-of-a-long-thread-'>How to stop the Gmail signature piling up at the end of a long thread?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Referencing today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_signature.jpg\" title=\"Click picture\">tutorial picture<\/a>, in broad brush terms, here are the steps for involving a signature when composing new <a target=_blank title='Gmail' href='http:\/\/www.gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> email messages &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>be logged into an active  <a target=_blank title='Gmail' href='https:\/\/www.gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> account at https:\/\/www.gmail.com web address URL<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;cog&#8221; icon one icon down from the top right of the webpage, and click\/touch Settings link<\/li>\n<li>vertically scroll down to the &#8220;Signature&#8221; section &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;Signature&#8221; radio button (as distinct from &#8220;No Signature&#8221; <font size=1>&#8230; doh!<\/font>) &#8230; and recently new to it, if not already the case &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch (as necessary) so that the &#8220;Insert this signature before quoted text in replies and remove the &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; line that precedes it.&#8221; is checked on<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;Insert Image&#8221; icon &#8230; and we chose via a &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;Upload&#8221; link &#8230; and we chose to &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;Select a file from your device&#8221; button and selected our &#8220;business_card.png&#8221; (Cairo PNG) Inkscape derived business card we talked about with <a target=_blank title='Inkscape Vector Image Editor Business Card Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/inkscape-vector-image-editor-business-card-tutorial\/'>Inkscape Vector Image Editor Business Card Tutorial<\/a> &#8230; then &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click\/touch the &#8220;Open&#8221; button to upload that business card image into the signature window provided, where you can also type text, as required<\/li>\n<li>down the bottom of Settings webpage is a &#8220;Save changes&#8221; button you should then click\/touch\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; so that, from then on, when composing a new Gmail email message it presents this signature as the initial content (and which you can immediately delete button (or highlight and Edit -&gt; Cut away), as required).   The &#8220;&#8211;&#8221; syntax then ensures no overdoing of signature display on long threads of emails derived from this new composed Gmail email.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='gespt'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-email-signature-primer-tutorial\/'>Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/email_signature-99of.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/email_signature-99of.jpg\" title=\"Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" id='dfiapboft' onmouseover=\" this.src=this.src.replace('-58of.jpg','-72of.xjpg').replace('-72of.jpg','-99of.xjpg').replace('-99of.jpg','-58of.xjpg').replace('.xjpg','.jpg');  \"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Email communication is pretty important for lots of businesses irrespective of whether SMS and Skype and Social Media forms of communication eat into its influence.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you find email too impersonal?  You can, with email clients like the Mac OS X desktop application called Mail, construct a signature that is personalised to the extent that it can show your moniker (ie. your signature).<\/p>\n<p>We did this, but not as expertly as you might if you were going to follow through on this, by &#8220;signing&#8221;, via a <a target=_blank title='Gimp image editor' href='http:\/\/gimp.org'>Gimp<\/a> &#8220;Pencil&#8221; tool session allowing <i>scribble<\/i> type mouse signatures, <br \/><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/email_signature-58of.jpg' title='Gimp bit'><\/img><br \/> though some stencil arrangement would, of course, do better, or perhaps even mobile &#8220;touch&#8221; signatures, perhaps.  Anyway, the quality of this is not much the point, though we noticed any big size to this image is too much for the Gmail website signature arrangements which you can see us shape towards but end up using the desktop Mail application instead. <br \/><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/email_signature-72of.jpg' title='Mail and Gmail signature setup bit'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/email_signature-99of.jpg' title='Gmail email with a signature'><\/img> <\/p>\n<p>In the Mail application you gather a signature or several which link to a mail account &#8230; ours is obviously not ideal mentioning rmetcalfe@rjmprogramming.com.au to do with emails sent by rmetcalfe15@gmail.com (both owned by Robert James Metcalfe) &#8230; and once in place any time you <i>Compose<\/i> a new email, if there is only the one signature, there it is ready in the body of the email ready for you to type your email messgae up above, or, indeed to type above and choose to delete the signature on this email send, should you so desire.  Either way, this can add greatly to the sense of personalization, with your email correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d19594' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d19594\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/email\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d19594' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d46162' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d46162\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/signature\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d46162' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revisiting Email Signatures today, specifically Google Gmail ones, and following on from Gmail Email Signature Primer Tutorial we have a dual purpose blog posting &#8230; involve the recent Inkscape work, specifically the &#8220;business card&#8221; work of the recent Inkscape Vector &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-email-signature-reply-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[3052,1534,380,503,513,2686,2538,1784,1319],"class_list":["post-46162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-tutorials","tag-business-card","tag-compose","tag-email","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-inkscape","tag-reply","tag-signature","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46168,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162\/revisions\/46168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}