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

  • From: Cyril H Halbach <cyrilh@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:32:50 -0500

        ReNa, I do not know what Outlook is but it sounds to me like
maybe it does not have the HTML function in it at all. Consequenctly the
only thing she would be able to do is to copy and paste it. Is there some
reaosn why she cannot use Outlook Express?  What version of Windows is
she running?  Cy

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:54:11 -0600 "G.R. Hanson"
<grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Well, in this case, all the ones I sent her <just checked sent mail> 
> started with
> http://
> 
> So, any others?
> 
> G.R. Hanson
> Arkansas USA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:31 PM
> Subject: [pchelpers] Re: hot link url's in Outlook
> 
> 
> 
> 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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