When using the save and send option in Word, Excel and the Send To command in other applications, Outlook creates a new e-mail but doesn’t add your signature. This also happens when right-clicking on a document and using the send to mail recipient function.
A user wanted to know why “Outlook doesn’t treat these as new e-mails and why the signature is not added by default.”
They are new emails, but the signature isn’t added because it’s how the message is created – the new message form is called after the point when Outlook would add the signature.
You’ll need to insert the signature yourself. In Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007, insert a signature from the Insert ribbon. In older versions, it’s on the Insert menu.
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Hi,
You’re actually wrong, because there’s a solution described here: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/create-a-custom-send-to-shortcut/
That is because that send to shortcut isn’t the Mail Recipient command. :) Mail Receiptent uses the same simple mapi as the File, Send to commands so no signature. If you create your own Send to shortcut using a command line, a signature will be added (and you’ll use your stationery).
Thanks for reminding reading about that workaround.
While the above comment’s advice works for “Send To” it doesn’t work for “save and send”, which is what lead me to this article. the advice to just insert the signature yourself works fine for me!