If your full name doesn’t fit, decrease the font size until it does. Then set the font size at something large-ish and type your name.

If you’re looking for the ultimate in classy signatures, check out “Comic Sans” instead. We’ll use “Bradley Hand ITC” for this little project but feel free to pick whichever one you like best. From the drop-down menu of fonts, select a font that looks sort of like handwriting. Then click on the far left side of your canvas. Open up Paint and click the text tool (it’s a little “A” icon). These steps should be similar in other image editing programs, too. It’s a free program loaded onto every Windows computer so we’ll use it because it’s the lowest common denominator as far as image editing programs go. If not, here’s how to do it using Microsoft Paint. If you already know how to do that, go ahead and do it. If you’d like to skip ahead, we’re basically going to create an image file of your “signature” and save it as a PNG file with a transparent background. This is a one-time deal, so think of it like getting your wisdom teeth pulled. How to sign and return a Word document without printing it out or, more importantly, faxing it? There’s a fancy, official, authenticated way to do this (see here) but I’ll show you how to quickly and easily “sign” your name to a Word document without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

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