Luck with Links?

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Sam Elowitch

Following the advice on p. 352 in Barber, Engst, and Reynolds, Office X for
Macintosh, I have been enclosing with braces (i.e., "<" and ">") any
hyperlinks I type into Entourage e-mails.

Have others had good luck with this technique? Do your recipients report
that they can click the links and they work?

Also, I've tried reviewing my sent messages that use this technique, and the
links appear in blue text with underlining; I consider that to be a good
sign.
 
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Diane Ross

Following the advice on p. 352 in Barber, Engst, and Reynolds, Office X for
Macintosh, I have been enclosing with braces (i.e., "<" and ">") any
hyperlinks I type into Entourage e-mails.

Have others had good luck with this technique? Do your recipients report
that they can click the links and they work?
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It's not absolutely necessary to include in brackets, but it does help if
the URL is long. It will keep the wrapping when sent.

If you are sending HTML messages and your recipient is in Outlook or Outlook
Express WINDOWS, they don't get Entourage's type of clickable links. If
that's the case, get the script "Make Hyperlinks"

http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/
 
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Sam Elowitch

I never send HTML mail; it's usually a waste of bandwidth, in my opinion.

The only possible good use of that I could see would be if web developers
are collaborating and need to see each other's work as it would appear in a
web browser. That's about it.

That said, if I enclose URLs (or "mailto:" URLs) in braces in a plain-text
message, will they work if received in Outlook/Outlook Express for Windows?

-Sam
 
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Paul Berkowitz

It's not absolutely necessary to include in brackets, but it does help if
the URL is long. It will keep the wrapping when sent.

If you are sending HTML messages and your recipient is in Outlook or Outlook
Express WINDOWS, they don't get Entourage's type of clickable links. If
that's the case, get the script "Make Hyperlinks"

http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/
Click to expand...

Although that's my script (and its "X" version, Make Hyperlinks X), I should
add that Entourage has a new method of encoding hyperlinks in HTML in
Entourage 10.1.4. They will now be clickable in Outlook and OE Windows -
which was where the problem occurred before 10.1.4. So you no longer need my
script just to make them clickable (I use the same technique Entourage now
does) if you just want them to appear as the normal URLs, and if you have
Entourage X: just update to Office 10.1.4 (or on to 10.1.5). The script is
still useful if you want to create 'real" hyperlinks with different Display
Text.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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