Adding Hyperlinks to Signatures

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Houston Ranger

I am unable to add a hyperlink to my signature in Entourage 2004. I am
also unable to add link within messages. Thanks for any help I can get.
 
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Adam Bailey

Houston Ranger said:
I am unable to add a hyperlink to my signature in Entourage 2004. I am
also unable to add link within messages. Thanks for any help I can get.

You should be good by including the complete web address in your signature
or in the text of your message. When in the body of text or if the address
breaks across two lines, I recommend enclosing it in < > brackets. For
example: <http://www.google.com/>.
 
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Houston Ranger

Adam said:
You should be good by including the complete web address in your signature
or in the text of your message. When in the body of text or if the address
breaks across two lines, I recommend enclosing it in < > brackets. For
example: <http://www.google.com/>.

There is no way that I can find to insert the hyperlink. For example a
URL remains in text or the hyperlink can't be within the text as you
can do in Mail or Outlook. Thanks.
 
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Mickey Stevens

There is no way that I can find to insert the hyperlink. For example a
URL remains in text or the hyperlink can't be within the text as you
can do in Mail or Outlook. Thanks.

As Adam said, if you type in the URL, it should be clickable on the
receiving end. Or do you mean that you want users to click some display
text that opens a URL without the URL appearing visibly in the message body?

If that's the case, you can do it within e-mail messages using Paul
Berkowitz's "Make Hyperlinks" script:
<http://www.scriptbuilders.net/search.php?search_str=Make+Hyperlinks>

For doing this in a signature, it's not easy. You can do this in Word 2004.
If you really want to send a mail with that sort of signature, create the
signature in a Word document with the link. Save it as a Word Template in
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/My Template. When you want to
compose a new message with this signature, open Word, go to File > Project
Gallery if necessary, and then click "My Templates" in the left pane and the
signature template in the right pane. You can then copy and paste your
message from Entourage or compose it directly in Word. When you're ready to
send it, go to File > Send To > Mail Recipient (as HTML). The content will
then be placed into a new mail message. Just address it and send it, and
the recipient should be able to click the image to open the link. I think
that's a bit more work than it's worth, though.
 
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Diane Ross

There is no way that I can find to insert the hyperlink. For example a
URL remains in text or the hyperlink can't be within the text as you
can do in Mail or Outlook. Thanks.

Are you saying this because the links aren't blue. Save the message as draft
and you can see they are clickable.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
 
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