Autoformatting of hyperlinks in Word and Outlook 2003

[kedgar]

The only way that I can figure out how to add a working hyperlink in Outlook
2003 is to send e-mail in the html format rather than rich or plain text. Is
there a way that you acheive this using rich text?

Microsoft Word only seems to auto-format a hyperlink when either the full
path name including the server, or an internet url address is typed. For
example; \\appapp02\install or http://www.google.com would automatically be
formatted as a hyperlink, while "c:\windows\program files" would not work.
Does anyone know how to get around this?

 

[Gary Smith]

We use rich text at work, and hyperlinks are automatically created when
URLs or network names are recognized. There doesn't seem to be any way to
stop it. You can't have actual hyperlinks in plain text.

"c:\windows\program files" is a folder name, not a link. You can make a
link from it by putting "file:" on the front. You also need to remove the
quotes and replace spaces with "%20". The resulting link may or may not
work on the receiving machine, depending on what folders and files
actually exist there.

 

[kedgar]

In Outlook 2003 at work, I cannot get rich text to autoformat a hyperlink.
The only way I can get it to work is to use html.

I'll try your solution to the second part. This was not as much for local
files as it was for network shares.

Thank you,
Ken

 

[Gary Smith]

I don't use links to files on network shares often, but I believe they
have to be formatted as \\machine-name\sharename\folder_or_filename.

In Outlook 2003 at work, I cannot get rich text to autoformat a hyperlink.
The only way I can get it to work is to use html.

I'll try your solution to the second part. This was not as much for local
files as it was for network shares.