Ensuring Compliance with Electronic Signature Lawfulness for Organizations in Canada

How to eSign a document: electronic signature lawfulness for organizations in Canada

how can you sign word and PDF documents online here are the top three ways to create electronic signatures need to sign a word PDF or any other type of document or maybe you're just looking for a way to create an e signature to use in the future luckily for you there's a number of ways you can solve these issues in this video we'll discuss our top three ways to create e signatures number three manually scan your signature remove any background and paste into documents this is an old school solution but it's still very popular all you need is a pen a piece of paper and Photoshop first sign the piece of paper we recommend using large letters and either a blue gel pen or a black marker then you will need to do some testing sign the piece of paper several times trying different pens and sizes of your signature it's best if you could do this in order to choose the best signature then you need to scan your paper we suggest choosing the best resolution to get a highquality image life pack if you don't have a scanner you could just take a picture of your signature with your smartphone or digital camera just make sure that the lens is parallel to the paper don't tilt it open Photoshop and then open your image choose the best version of your signature and then crop it now you need to use the magic wand tool select the area near your signature then select inverse and copy it now you need to create a new document with a transparent background paste your signature on it if necessary you can edit your signature try the rubber or magic wand tool to create a final version of your signature now you can save this image in any format you need we suggest using PNG as it supports the transparent background for Word documents you can use jpeg that's it now you can simply paste your signature into any document for example open a Word document and insert your signature as an image number two desktop software Adobe Acrobat Reader the second way to create an e signature is with Adobe Acrobat Reader it's currently the most popular desktop software to sign PDF documents the process of creating an e signature with Adobe Acrobat is quite simple but it's only a good solution for PDF documents open Adobe Acrobat Reader or download it if you don't already have it then open the PDF document you need to sign in the bottom of the page you will see an option to fill and sign your document then you need to click on the sign icon and choose the option you want you can either add a signature or your initials let's try to add a signature first you need to choose whether you want to type draw or insert an image of your signature let's say you want to type it in then you can move your signature to any place of the document you need to it's a simple solution but again it only works for PDFs number one online software Panda do the easiest and fastest way to create e signatures and sign do documents online is to use any of the available software online we've chosen Panda do as it works with many types of documents including PDF and docx to sign any type of document you need to create an account next create a new document then upload the file you need to sign now you need to add a signature field where you need to sign after you select the field you can now sign it you can paint type or upload your signature after you signed the document you can download it after you've downloaded it you now have a signed document if you need to deliver the document to someone or get a signature on your document from another person you can do it right within Panda do but we like about panda do is that you'll know when your document is open because Panda do tracks what happens to the document after you've sent it you can add your signature in your profile so that you can use it for any document you can add your signature to your profile so that you can reuse it in any document these are our top three ways to create e signatures and we hope it was useful if you have any other ways to sign documents online please share them in the comments