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Q: Adding Links to Signature

I am trying to add business links to social media sites to my signature and have been unable to find a way to do so.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 18, 2014 12:31 PM

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Q: Adding Links to Signature

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  • by Tuttle,

    Tuttle Tuttle Jan 18, 2014 8:57 PM in response to paige1334
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    Jan 18, 2014 8:57 PM in response to paige1334

    One way to do this is to create a link in the body of an email message by using the Add or edit a hyperlink button, and after the hyperlink has been created, copy it directly into a new Signature in Mail Preferences.

     

    So, if you want to create a link to your Twitter feed, you'd open a new Mail message, and type "Twitter" into the body of that message.

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.39.34 PM.png

     

     

    Select that:

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.54.42 PM.png

     

     

    Click on the Add hyperlink button (if that button isn't visible, add it to your Mail toolbar by control-clicking on the toolbar, choosing Customize Toolbar..., then drag the button up into in the toolbar),

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.22.13 PM.png

     

     

    add your Twitter account's address into the text field that opens, and click OK.

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.36.45 PM.png

     

     

    That will create the hyperlink

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.37.17 PM.png

     

     

    which you will select and copy, then paste into the new Signature you're creating...

     

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.32.46 PM.png

     

     

    Close the Mail message you used to create the links, and the sig you created will be available in the Signature list for future messages. If you want to add any other links, just keep creating them the same way and paste them into the same sig in Mail Preferences.

     

     

    Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at Saturday January 18, 11.50.07 PM.png

     

     

    Done.

  • by paige1334,

    paige1334 paige1334 Jan 20, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Tuttle
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    Jan 20, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Tuttle

    Thank you for the response, but in 10.9.1 the setup is different and I have tried creating it in Pages and also a new email and when you copy and paste it into the signature it strips the hyperlink.  I am not sure what else to try.  Thanks again for your time.

  • by Tuttle,

    Tuttle Tuttle Jan 20, 2014 10:43 AM in response to paige1334
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    Jan 20, 2014 10:43 AM in response to paige1334

    This definitely works in 10.9.1.

     

    One thing you need to check, and which I neglected to mention, is that in Mail > Preferences > Composing, the Rich Text option must be enabled for Message Format. If Message Format is set to Plain Text, hyperlinks won't work regardless of the application in which you created them (Mail, Pages, or whatever).

     

    Good luck!

  • by paige1334,

    paige1334 paige1334 Jan 21, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Tuttle
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    Jan 21, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Tuttle

    In the Composing tab I do not have the option of Rich Text, the only one is Enable Unicode (UTF-8).  I understand the process you are describing but do not see those options in Icloud email.

  • by Tuttle,

    Tuttle Tuttle Jan 21, 2014 4:05 PM in response to paige1334
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    Jan 21, 2014 4:05 PM in response to paige1334

    This is the first you've mentioned iCloud. This is the OS X 10.9 Mavericks forum and the instructions I've given you are for Mail.app which is a part of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. I don't know too much about iCloud Mail because I mainly use my iCloud mail account as a catchall for spam. I do know that you cannot create the type of signature you want if you use the web-based iCloud to manage your mail. Good luck!

  • by Jayme Halbritter,

    Jayme Halbritter Jayme Halbritter Apr 28, 2016 12:05 PM in response to Tuttle
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    Apr 28, 2016 12:05 PM in response to Tuttle

    Hi there!

     

    Say I'm hoping you'll still see this reply... I'm at the stage where I copied the hyperlinked word, and pasted it into my signature, but it's not pasting the hyperlink.

     

    I'm using Yosemite.

     

    I selected the jayme@jaymehalbritter.com signature on the left, had clicked on the middle one to the left of the signature, pasted it, closed the preference box, sent a test signature, and the www.jaymehalbritter.com has a highlighted link normally, but the Instagram @ jamesclifton does not.

     

    Any ideas? I'll attach a screenshot.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Jayme

     

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