There is currently no way of inserting a live hyperlink into an Entourage
message, at least no convenient or straightforward one. You can always
insert the URL, with the http:// prefix, and most e-mail clients should
automatically convert them to active hyperlinks. Also, if you type a link
with a http:// prefix into an HTML message, Entourage will automatically
encode it as a clickable hyperlink. Make sure you enclose the URL in "<>"
brackets to make sure the URL breaks properly and does not get split up at
some point.
ex: <
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/>
An alternative, if you are using Entourage 2004/2008, would be to use Word
2004/2008 to compose your e-mail message, since you can easily create
hyperlinks in that program (select some text, then hit Cmd+K). If Entourage
is configured as your default e-mail client, you can, when you're done
composing your message in Word, go to File>Send To>Mail Recipient (as HTML).
The downside to this method is that once the document has been passed on to
Entourage, you can no longer modify it, or add attachments.
Yet another alternative would be to use Paul Berkowitz's free AppleScript
Make Hyperlinks X, which you can download here:
<
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/makehyperlinksx2.2.1.html>
You can always request that feature by clicking on Help>Send Feedback on
Entourage.
I would like to "hot link" a URL in the text of an email. How can I do that in
Entourage? I can find no option that allows me to do this.
Thanks.
macadict
--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
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