PDF Signature Signing In Preview

This is how Apple describes how to create a signature in Preview, however I can't see the 'signature button'. What I did find was Signatures in the preferences, anyone else see the same?
Open up a PDF in Preview. Click the annotations button (), then click the signature button (), then hit “Create Signature from Built-in iSight”. Scribe your signature onto a white piece of paper, hold it up to your iSight, and bam: you’ve got a stampable version of your signature sitting in Preview.

Thanks, you were right. I found it in Preferences.
Appreciate the help.

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