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Overview
This article describes how to set up your email signature on the web version of SFU Mail.
- Create your signature
- Select your default signature
- Create your signature using SFU's official templates
Details
Create your signature
- Sign into outlook.office.com
- In the navigation bar, click the gear icon to open Settings
- By default, settings for Mail should already be selected. Click Compose and reply to access Email signature.
- Enter a name and create the signature you want to use. You can also create your signature using SFU's official templates.
- Click Save.
Select your default signature
- Under Email Signature, select which signature is used when:
- A new message is created
- Replying to or forwarding a message
- Click Save to apply the changes.
Create your signature using SFU's official templates
To create a signature using SFU's official templates, copy the text and images below and paste it into the signature creation text box. Replace the placeholder text with your information, delete the sections that are not needed, and follow the formatting guidelines.
Official SFU email signature
Your Name
Your Title | Department
Simon Fraser University | Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604.123.4567 | M: 604.123.4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
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Official SFU email signature with territorial acknowledgement
Your Name
Your Title | Department
Simon Fraser University | Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604.123.4567 | M: 604.123.4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
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Official SFU Signature with Gender Pronouns
Your Name
Pronouns: they, them, their | she, her, hers | he, him, his
Your Title | Your Department
Simon Fraser University | Your Building Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604 123 4567 | M: 604 123 4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
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The fonts within your signature should be formatted as follows:
Your Name:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: bold
- Color: black
Your Title | Your Department:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: normal
- Color: black
Location and Contact Information:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: normal
- Color: black
- Use | to separate items
Social Media:
- Social media addresses should be hyperlinked to their respective platform name, not the social media handle name
- Delete social media names that are not needed
For more information regarding SFU email signatures and branding, see Communicators Toolkit - Email Signature.