The CAC has a bar code on it that can be read by a bar code reader. The user’s ID number would need to get to Excel, then Excel would need to query the database that has the user’s name and any other information you wish to add to the worksheet. Excel can query the database and place the information on the worksheet wherever you want it, but you’ve left out so many details that I can’t be more specific.

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What more information does a person need? 'Hell Of A Pilot' was asking a VERY simple question, that I've been attempting to find the answer to as well. A basic signature? Could be digitally signed or a draw signature as Abode Acrobat allows. For such an advanced software, how is it that Excel doesn't allow for a form to be signed on a Mac? We're not asking for really complicated, round-about answers.

It's simple really. Can I put a signature on my Excel form so I don't have to be near a printer, scanner or fax machine to get the form sent off?

A new signature appears under Signature name with the name Untitled. Double-click Untitled, and then type a name for the signature. This name does not appear in the signature in your messages; it is only for your reference.

'Signature' means very different things to different people. Signing forms electronically is not simple at all.

There are many ways to do it, so assuming that what you have in mind is what everyone else on the planet has in mind requires the rest of us to be mind readers. We are not mind readers. You have to elaborate in order for us to know which of the many options you are thinking about. If I am guessing correctly, you want to put a picture of a signature into an Excel file and use that to authenticate a signature on a form. Or maybe you are thinking of Adobe's electronic authenticity verification services.

Or maybe you have in mind encrypting a document when it is sent via email to someone. Bob already provided links on how to provide a true digital signature for a workbook.

If that is not what you are thinking of, please elaborate. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. 'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft.

'Microsoft Agents' work for Microsoft Support. I am so sorry, Jim.

You are right. My snide and frustrated comment had nothing to do with you, and was especially unfair considering your willingness to be of service. I was engaging in wishful thinking, in that I had been looking for a way to 'draw' a digital signature, (just as I would with pen and paper), the way I can in Acrobat Pro. I'd seen references online about a 'signature line' that could be added to Excell, but couldn't find that option in my version (Mac 2011 Home & Student) and frankly didn't know what kind of signature it would lend.

I know it's easy to add an image, but I don't have one. I don't very much like using digital verification signatures, because I find them to be less than aesthetically pleasing and kind of clunky.

I will go back to see what Bob's link was he'd shared. Thank you for your comment above. I should have been kind and grateful, and instead became unnecessarily rude and insulting. Hi Lyana No offense taken. This is one of those topics that seem so simple, yet it is a very complex topic with lots of legal ramifications.

Using an image or drawing of a signature as evidence of authenticity is an open invitation to fraud. No one should ever use an image or picture of their signature to authenticate or sign any document. Anyone can make a perfect copy of this type of signature and apply it to any document. There is no software that prevents this from happening. A screen shot from a cell phone camera is all one needs to capture such a signature.

A miscreant can easily use such an image to steal an identity and cause limitless mischief. Such a signature violates HIPAA, FERPA or other mandated security programs. Using true digital signatures is a PITA (another famous acronym, yes?). Most people ought to be using electronic digital signatures to sign all their email. Email that is not digitally signed can easily be sent to the trash folder.

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BUT, these digital signatures are machine specific, not person specific. Get a new machine or switch to a different machine and you're screwed. No wonder no one uses them. The more elaborate signatures handled by a dedicated signature server (as described in the links earlier in this thread) are the best way to go, but they're expensive. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft.