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I created my signature in Outlook 2007. My email address and website
are not
becoming links. They did in Outlook 2003. Can anyone offer me
assistance?
[email protected] is NOT an e-mail link. It may become highlighted
or underlined in a particular program but it is doing that as a favor
and not because it is a valid link. A valid link specifies the
protocol, so for e-mail that would be mailto:
[email protected]. It
is only because of de facto usage in many but not all programs that
the protocol often gets omitted but the string is still *shown* as a
clickable link (which may or may not be clickable in whatever the
recipient uses to view that same document).
Same goes for your web site.
www.yourdomain.tld is not a valid URL to
a web site. URLs also must specify the protocol, so
http://www.yourdomain.tld is a valid URL. Programs might provide
conveniences but that doesn't alter what really comprises a valid URL.
Try using a valid URL. That means also including the protocol in the
URL. Uniform Resource Locators are describe in RFC 1738
(
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html). It is the programs that have
let users become lazy by omitting the protocol prefix under the belief
that users can often recognize what protocol is implied by the
unprefixed string. Users have become accustomed to programs providing
clickable links even when the protocol is missing from the URL.
I don't use OL2007. Since OL2007 forces a stub of Word onto Outlook
users to compose messages, it could be a Word issue in how it decides
to make active (clickable link) a string that looks or parses like it
might be a URL.
