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		<title>Quickly add URLs to Apple Mail Signatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Gaden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As everyone knows, it has long been possible to add a very fancy signature to your mail.app emails, using the excellent tutorial provided by Melvin Rivera. It&#8217;s complicated, involving some digging around under the hood. It also requires a measure of HTML and CSS coding ability. However, when the process is over the result is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As everyone knows, it has long been possible to add a very fancy signature to your mail.app emails, using <a href="http://allforces.com/2006/04/14/css-signatures/" title="Custom CSS Signatures in Mail &raquo; All Forces">the excellent tutorial</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/> provided by Melvin Rivera. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s complicated, involving some digging around under the hood. It also requires a measure of HTML and CSS coding ability.</p>
<p>However, when the process is over the result is impressive (provided that you don&#8217;t hold a faith position on plain text in Internet communication):</p>
<div align=center><img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/webarchive_csssignature.jpg" alt="Webarchive CSS signature" height="421" width="450"/></div>
<p>Now a poster on macOSXHints has discovered an easier way.  It is possible to add hyperlinks to your signatures in Mail&#8217;s Preferences without the pain involved in the first option.</p>
<p>All you need to do is type text into the signature field, highlight it and press Command-K (&#x2318;-K).  Up pops a dialog into which you place the URL, and you&#8217;re done.  In a minute you have a hyperlinked signature, not as polished as Melvin&#8217;s, but easier on the eye than a sig full of long URLs:</p>
<div align=center><img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/quick_hyperlinked_sig.jpg" alt="Quick Hyperlinked sig" height="429" width="450"/></div>
<p>Rob Griffiths comments that the tip didn&#8217;t work for him in 10.5, but it&#8217;s working fine for me in 10.6.1 (mail.app 4.1).</p>
<p>Of course, Command-K (&#x2318;-K) also works in the body of any (rich text) email you are composing.</p>
<p>[Via <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090902125502792&amp;query=mail.app" title="10.6: Insert hyperlinks into Mail's signatures - Mac OS X Hints">macOSXHints</a> <img src="http://www.hawkwings.net/images/extlink.jpg"/>]<strong>Similar Posts:</strong>
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