Hyperlinks

Charles Victor Ganelin

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Jul 10, 2007, 4:42:39 PM7/10/07

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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.

Michel Bintener

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Jul 10, 2007, 5:50:30 PM7/10/07

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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.

On 10/07/2007 22:42, in article C2B9677F.9B68%gan...@muohio.edu, "Charles
Victor Ganelin" <gan...@muohio.edu> wrote:

> When I cut and paste黍r even type in蟻 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)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

Jolly Roger

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Jul 10, 2007, 5:59:16 PM7/10/07

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On 2007-07-10 15:42:39 -0500, Charles Victor Ganelin <gan...@muohio.edu> said:

> When I cut and paste黍r even type in蟻 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.

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

--
JR

Charles Victor Ganelin

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Jul 10, 2007, 6:14:04 PM7/10/07

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Thank you, JR!

Charles

On 7/10/07 5:59 PM, in article
2007071016591650073-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom, "Jolly Roger"

Charles Victor Ganelin

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Jul 10, 2007, 6:16:05 PM7/10/07

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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.

On 7/10/07 5:50 PM, in article C2B9CBC6.31E7%m.bin...@NOSPAMmvps.org,

Diane Ross

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Jul 10, 2007, 7:58:59 PM7/10/07

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On 7/10/07 1:42 PM, in article C2B9677F.9B68%gan...@muohio.edu, "Charles
Victor Ganelin" <gan...@muohio.edu> wrote:

> When I cut and paste黍r even type in蟻 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.
>

See blog article ｳInsert URLs into a messageｲ

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/07/insert_urls_into_a_message.html>

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Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>