John,
I'm not going to shoot the messenger, but can you please pass along that
this is the most assanine idea that Microsoft has with regards to Outlook?
I am an admin assistant and I use the signature feature a great deal for
draft form emails. I will use one paragraph as a signature and then another
paragraph as a different signature. Each email needs to be a little
different, but the bulk of the text is the same. However, using the work
around of drafting one signature for each "form email" is just assanine.
It's absolutely stupid. I loved using the signature feature for form emails.
It worked great and saved me a great deal of time. This new feature is only
going to add time to my work and make it more frustrating and I'll tell
people not to upgrade.
"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:
No. As you have discovered, writing the second signature involves changing
the file, invalidating the first signature. A digital signature relies on a
checksum of the file: if you change the file by as much as a single bit, the
signature will be invalid.
On 31/1/07 9:08 AM, in article
, "James Conley" James
wrote:
Do you know if MS Word [or Excel] 2007 support having multiple digital
signatures [independent of each other] on a single document?
That is - can I put 3 signature lines on a document, sign it, and route it
to the other two people so that they can sign it also? Every time I try this
the document gets saved when the 2nd person signs the document which triggers
invalidating any prior signatures. I've tried this in Sharepoint Portal
Server 2003, Outlook email attachments, and finally by putting the document
on a file share and they all result in the same thing happening - signing the
document invalidates any previous signatures.
James C.
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