Adding Links to Signature

Old thread I know, but I just had to work through this and found a potential solution. I just had success creating my signature in Word (with multiple hyperlinks). Saving word document as HTML, then simple copy and paste of HTML into the Signature window - be sure to uncheck "match default font box". My signature appeared as desired (images too), and hyperlinks were functional.

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.

Select that:

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),

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

That will create the hyperlink

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

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.

Done.

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!

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!

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

Really old thread but came across it by accident. Adding hyperlinks to signatures is a matter of right-clicking and pick the Add link from the menu.