[pchelpers] Re: hot link url's in Outlook

  • From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:31:38 +1300

As far as I know, it's always worked if you start the link off with
this:
http://
Then it works like any link on a web page (unless Outlook is designed to
act abnormally). Remember, this is the form used in html pages.

G.R. Hanson wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine uses Outlook.  Not Outlook Express.
> 
> She had me send her a list of url's I had on a certain thing she was
> researching.
> When I asked how her research went, she said she gave up as the urls I
> sent would not automatically open and she had to type each and every
> one out to get to see the pages.  <she probably doesn't know how to
> cut and paste>.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to make it so when someone send urls to their
> email, that they appear as hotlinks?
> (I believe that's what they call that, it's what "I" call it so I hope
> that's right, grin.)
> 
> Again, she is using Microsoft Outlook.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> I feel like maybe I asked this question before, so if it is a repeat,
> then sorry about that.
> 
> BTW, her Outlook is strange.  When people send her jpg's in email, she
> does not see them in the email either, she has to click on them and
> use a viewer to get to see them.  I wasn't sure how to change that
> either at the time I was there.  I would have just set her up with
> Outlook Express since that is what I use and I'm familiar with, but we
> did a search and it's not on her pc, so I didn't bother with it at
> that time.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> G.R. Hanson
> Arkansas USA
> 
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