Put your signature on a form on screen
Put your signature on a form on the screen, and know which of the three kinds is wanted.
For everything else — the badge renewal, the club membership, the form the doctor’s office emailed — a typed or drawn signature on a PDF is what everybody now does.
Key points
- Put a signature on a form on the screen, typed or drawn.
- Say which of the three kinds a given document is likely to want.
- Deal with the harder sort of form that is only a picture.
What to remember
- Look for a tool called Text, Add text or Fill and sign. It lets you put words anywhere on the page.
- The organization asking decides what a signature has to be. If they have not said, a typed name is normal.
Try this
Open the signature tool in whatever opens your attachments — it is usually called Fill and sign — and draw your name once with a finger or the pointer. It is saved, and it is there the next time. Doing it before you need it takes the moment out of the job.
Practice: Put your signature on a form on screen. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.