Step-by-step instructions on how to add a button linking directly to your LinkedIn profile to your Outlook email signature.

1. How to Add a LinkedIn
Button to your Email
Signature
Julie Smith
Professional Sales West Recruiter

2. Access your Public Profile
 Access your Account Settings by clicking on your name in the
upper right hand corner. Select Settings from the drop down box.
 Once loaded, click on Edit your Public Profile
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3. Choose your LinkedIn button
 Once on your public profile, scroll down until you find the box
entitled Your public profile URL.
– It will be on the right hand side of the page
 Start by clicking on the Create a profile badge link.
 You will then see a variety of badges and HTML code. Right click on
the badge/graphic that you want to appear on your email and select
copy from the drop down box.
– Ignore the HTML code as we won’t be using it .
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4. Access your Outlook signature
 In Outlook, click on the Tools button and then select Options
– Keep LinkedIn open in your browser – we’ll need it in a minute!
 In the pop-up box that appears, click on the Mail Format Tab along
the top, then select the Signatures option.
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5. Edit your Outlook signature
 Your email signature should now be showing in a new pop-up box.
 Select where you want your LinkedIn badge to go and Paste it by
right clicking and selecting the Paste option.
– I chose to put mine after the standard FXO email signature.
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6. Obtain your public LinkedIn profile URL
 Switch back to the LinkedIn browser and return to the Edit Public
Profile page by click the back button on your browser.
– You can also follow the steps outlined in Slide 2 to return here.
 In the same box where we found our buttons, highlight your public
URL and Copy it by highlighting the URL only and right clicking on
it.
– For example, I highlighted http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemwsmith
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7. Hyperlink your signature to your LinkedIn profile
 Switch back to the Email signature pop-up box in Outlook
– Exactly where we left off in Slide 5
 Select/highlight your button we previously pasted by clicking on it.
 Click on the Hyperlink icon in the middle right hand corner of the
pop-up box.
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8. Hyperlink your signature to your LinkedIn profile
 A new Edit Hyperlink pop-up box will appear.
 Along the bottom there will be a box that says Address. Copy your
Public Profile URL here and click OK.
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9. Save your new Email Signature
 Don’t forget to save your new Email signature by clicking on the
Save button prior to closing out of the pop-ups.
 You’re done!
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