Hyperlink text in Ent X emails

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OldManJimbo

Using Entourage X - when writing an email, how do I set up the application
to automatically change email addresses and URLs to hyperlink text?
 
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Mickey Stevens

See this FAQ on the Entourage Help Page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/faqs.html#Anchor-65>

One of the latest Office updates includes an improvement to the HTML
composition engine that ensures that all HTML links are clickable (the third
paragraph on the page is no longer valid). If you haven't already, download
and install the latest Office X updates, which are 10.1.2, 10.1.4, and
10.1.5 (10.1.3 is unnecessary). They¹re available from Microsoft.
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#OfficeX>

If you want to use display text, which is essentially having the user click
text you define to open up some link, you need to use Paul Berkowitz's free
"Make Hyperlinks" script, available here:
<http://www.scriptbuilders.net/category.php?search=Make+Hyperlinks>
 
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OldManJimbo

OK thanks - I performed the downloads and installed them all. But email
addresses and URLs I type into Entourage X email messages still just have
the squiggley red line indicating a spelling error. Is there a step I'm missing?
Is there something I need to set in the preferences? I can't find it.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

OK thanks - I performed the downloads and installed them all. But email
addresses and URLs I type into Entourage X email messages still just have
the squiggley red line indicating a spelling error. Is there a step I'm
missing?
Is there something I need to set in the preferences? I can't find it.
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Just send the message. When you're in an editable text window, such as a new
message window you're writing, the URLs and email addresses are just text.
That's what allows you to finish them and edit them instead of having them
suddenly click to life as faulty URLs transporting you to Safari before
you're done. When you send, or save, the message, they will change to proper
hyperlinks that are clickable by the recipient or by you (in Sent Items).

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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OldManJimbo

Paul - I am sorry to report that what you say will happen - does not.

I sent myself an email containing a simple URL and it arrived with the URL as
only text.

What am I missing?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Paul - I am sorry to report that what you say will happen - does not.

I sent myself an email containing a simple URL and it arrived with the URL as
only text.

What am I missing?
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Probably the http:// at the beginning? You can't start "www."

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>



--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Mickey Stevens

Go to Entourage -> General Preferences. Under the "Spelling" tab, check the
option to "Ignore internet and file addresses" and click OK.

That shouldn't affect whether your links are clickable, though. If you
format them properly, with the http prefix, they should work:
http://groups.google.com/
 
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OldManJimbo

Your're kidding me, right? This is ridiculous. Another example of Entourage
falling FAR short of Outlook for the PC.

Is there any fix on the way for this?
 
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OldManJimbo

OK - I guess I need to use the http:// before every URL I add to an email
(lame) - how do I get an email address to show up as a hyperlink?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

OK - I guess I need to use the http:// before every URL I add to an email
(lame) - how do I get an email address to show up as a hyperlink?
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Include an @ sign (and no spaces). Any proper email address will show up OK.

Don't you see your own in this thread:

"OldManJimbo" <[email protected]>

Mine:

Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com>


Read these news posts in Entourage rather than in a Microsoft web-browser
and you'll see.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Barry Wainwright

Your're kidding me, right? This is ridiculous. Another example of Entourage
falling FAR short of Outlook for the PC.
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Wrong.

This is another case of Entourage following internet standards where Outlook
'does it's own thing'.

Not all web addresses start with 'www.', and just because a URL does start
with 'www.' it doesn't mean it has to be the address of a http: protocol
service (although they _almost_ invariably are).

The RFCs that refer to addressing always state that the correct protocol
should be defined; 'http://' for web pages, 'ftp://' for FTP sites,
'for newsgroups etc...
Is there any fix on the way for this?
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Well, I live in hope of the outlook developers realising there is an
internet outside of exchange servers some time before the next millennium,
but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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