Your email signature is an opportunity to more closely align your email correspondence with our University brand. While you are free to use your own unbranded signature, our templates can help you create a professional, streamlined look.

If you have questions about how to use one of the email signatures in the template below, please feel free to contact the Office of Strategic Communications & Marketing at (209) 664-6780 or cpa@csustan.edu.

Download the .zip file and extract the Word template.

screenshot of general email signatures
screenshot of alumni email signatures

Instructions on How to Create Your Outlook Email Signature

Email Signature Update on Windows

  1. Download one of the signature options.
  2. Open the downloaded file in a text editor, such as Microsoft Word.
  3. Replace the placeholder text with your own information, including your name, title, phone number, email and division or department name.
  4. Open Outlook and create a new email.
  5. Click on the “signature” button and select “signatures” from the drop-down.
  6. Select a current signature you want to replace or create a new signature. Create a name for your signature.
  7. Copy your signature from your document and paste it in the window that appears below “edit signature.”
  8. Under “choose default signature,” use the dropdowns to select which emails you want your new signature to appear.
  9. Click “save” and “okay.”
  10. Your signature will automatically be added to the types of emails you selected.

Revised Aug. 2, 2023: Windows 10; Outlook version: 2306 Build 16.0.16529.20164 64-bit
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Email Signature Update on Mac

  1. Download one of the signature options.
  2. Open the downloaded file in a text editor, such as Microsoft Word. 
  3. Replace the placeholder text with your own information, including your name, title, phone number, email and division or department name.
  4. Open Outlook and navigate to settings/preferences.
  5. Once in settings, open “signatures” and click “+ (add a signature)”
  6. Copy and paste your newly created signature, give it a signature name and click save.
  7. Choose where your signature will go. You can add it to new messages as well as replies and forwards.
  8. Your signature will automatically be added to the types of emails you selected.

Revised Aug. 2, 2023: Outlook version 16.75

Updated: February 06, 2024