Hyperlinks

  • Thread starter Charles Victor Ganelin
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Charles Victor Ganelin

When I cut and paste‹or even type in‹a hyperlink into a new email message
window, the url does not highlight and become an active link. The Help menu
is, shall we say, less than helpful.

Thanks.
 
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Michel Bintener

There is currently no way of inserting a live hyperlink into an Entourage
message, at least no convenient or straightforward way. 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.

example: <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/>

An alternative, if you are using Entourage 2004, would be to use Word 2004
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.


When I cut and paste‹or even type in‹a hyperlink into a new email message
window, the url does not highlight and become an active link. The Help menu
is, shall we say, less than helpful.

Thanks.
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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Jolly Roger

When I cut and paste‹or even type in‹a hyperlink into a new email message
window, the url does not highlight and become an active link. The Help menu
is, shall we say, less than helpful.
Click to expand...

Don't worry - after you send the message, the link is clickable on the
receiving end.
 
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Charles Victor Ganelin

I think I will request the feature, which is common to most Mac-based email
clients. And will try the script you suggest, too.

I appreciate the suggestions.
 
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