

Then take a photo with your smartphone or camera. Write your signature on a piece of paper, preferably clean white paper for a good image. It’ll need a little cropping, more on that below. You’ll end up with an image showing the entire screen.
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Or save the document or image from the app it was made in. Modern Camera Roll tools in OneDrive and Dropbox should do that for you automatically. If necessary, transfer the screen image to another computer. See Taking screenshots – Windows, Mac and more which covers iPhone, iPad and Android screen image shortcuts too.

Once you’re happy, take an image of the screen with your signature. Remember this is a ‘keeper’ that you can use on any future documents. Write your signature on the screen, erase and try again until you’re happy with it. Open the Word app or some other app which accepts drawing of some sort. Apple Pencil or other drawing tool) write your signature, then take a picture of the screen. If you have a device with a digital pen (e.g. Similar to writing into a document above. Let’s look at the options in order of image clarity. There are a few ways to do that, depending on the devices and tools available.

You need a picture of your signature to paste into documents. It’s a little clumsy but might be enough. If you have a touch screen, you can try ‘writing’ on the screen with your fingertip. In this article we’ll explain your options for adding your human ‘ink’ signature to a letter like this: That could include a picture of your ink signature. Email signature - the footer at the end of emails.If a company wants you to ‘sign’ a document this way, they’ll send you a link and instructions. There are various proprietary systems for ‘signing’ a document, the most common is Docusign. And most people receiving a locked document would not understand either! It’s commonly used to verify VBA code and other digital media but not whole Office documents. It’s possible to do that in Microsoft Word but most people don’t bother. A way of verifying that a document came from a specific source or author and has not been tampered with after sending. Digitally signing or locking a document.That’s what we’re covering in this article. Inserting a copy of a human written signature into an electronic document. Adding your signature or signing a document digitally is possible in different ways using Microsoft Word or other Office programs.īefore we start, let’s clarify some terminology because ‘signing a document’ can mean several things in the computer world:
