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How to digitally sign a word document - need a solution that's simple and inexpensive

My managers want to receive documents that they can sign digitally, so they don't have to print and sign it. They also want it to be simple and inexpensive (preferably free!)... what are my options? Everyone in the office has Office 2003.

We're a small business running Small Business Server 2003 if it makes any difference.

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NeilParbrook

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PC_Rob

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Eric Fletcher

If you use the method of inserting a picture of a signature (per the link Rob provided), you can make it more realistic and avoid the spacing issues related to placing an image. Save the scanned signature as a GIF and specify that the white (from the paper) be transparent. Then, when you insert the image into your Word document, double-click it to open the Format Picture dialog and in the Layout tab, choose "In front of text". Now the image will lay "on top" of the text so if you position it to overlap the typed closing, it will look more realistic.

This is even more realistic if you can use a coloured scan and a colour printer.

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