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How to retrive Outllok default signature

Submitted by Sergey on May 11, 2011 - 09:08

The Outlook signatures are stored in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures\ folder in text, RTF and HTML formats.
In case of multiple signatures, the default can be found through Word automation. Tested in Outlook 2003 and later.

This is sample code. Add error handling and adjust to your requirements as necessary.

* The folder name where signatures are stored depends on the Windows language version
* English
lcFilePath = GETENV("APPDATA") + "\Microsoft\Signatures\"
* Spanish 
*lcFilePath = GETENV("APPDATA") + "\Microsoft\Firmas\"
 
loWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
loEmOpt = loWord.EmailOptions
loOlSig = loEmOpt.EmailSignature
lcSigFileName = ALLTRIM(loOlSig.NewMessageSignature )
* Text signature
lcPathAndFile = lcFilePath + lcSigFileName + ".txt"
IF FILE(lcPathAndFile )
	lcTextIn = FILETOSTR(lcPathAndFile  )
 
	IF  LEFT( lcTextIn ,2) = 0hFFFE
		* Remove Unicode header
		lcTextIn = SUBSTR(lcTextIn,3)		
	ENDIF	
 
	lcFileContent = STRCONV(lcTextIn ,6)	
	? lcFileContent 
ENDIF

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