Re: How do I insert a hyperlink into an e-mail?
- From: Ben Wright <benwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:55:30 -0700
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/
On 8/18/05 10:45 AM, in article BF2A1744.138B%benwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ben
Wright" <benwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, Entourage does handle it in a weird way. When it's in the New Mail
> Window, it doesn't look like it's a link, but when the person you're sending
> it to gets it, it is a link (usually).
>
> If you put "http://"; (minus the quotes) in front of the web address (ie:
> http://www.spiderrobinson.com/), it should be a hotlink/hyperlink on the
> recipient's end. If you choose Mail Link to This Page in Safari
> (Shift+CMD+I), it uses this format.
>
> The email address should work if you just put it in the email, as a
> precaution you can put "mailto:"; in front of the email address.
>
> Good luck, Spider.
>
> Ben Wright
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>
> PS - I'm a big fan!
>
> On 8/18/05 9:52 AM, in article BF2A0AF1.1230%spiderweb@xxxxxxx, "Spider
> Robinson" <spiderweb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> How do I cause text I have typed into an e-mail to become a "hyperlink," in
>> Entourage? By "hyperlink," I mean what everyone else in the world calls a
>> "hotlink." (It took me hours just to find out that's Microsoft's new word
>> for it.)
>>
>> That is, if I type the URL of a website, how do I cause it to change colour
>> and become underlined, such that a recipient of the message can just click
>> on that text and be taken to that website?
>>
>> And if I type the the NAME of a website, how do I cause that name to
>> represent the site's URL, and be linked to it, so that clicking on the name
>> will take another to that site?
>>
>> And if I type someone's e-mail address, how do I cause THAT to change colour
>> and become underlined, so that another may simply click on it, and be
>> presented with a blank e-mail already addressed to that person at that
>> address?
>>
>> I am baffled by how baffled I am by these simple questions...after hours of
>> searching the Help Menu, I cannot BELIEVE that such a common everyday need
>> is ignored so utterly and resolutely by Microsoft. Especially since there
>> are several places in the Help section that specifically PROMISE they will
>> address my question, but are all lying. (In fact they tell how to insert
>> anything BUT a hyperlink. Pictures, movies, music, pleasant
>> smells...anything at all BUT what MOST commonly needs to be inserted into
>> e-mail.
>>
>> In primitive old Netscape, one simply highlighted text, chose a prominent
>> convenient command called "LINK," and typed into the resulting dialog box
>> whatever URL or e-mail address one wanted that text linked to, and hit
>> RETURN. End of problem. How can Microsoft have failed to notice that most
>> of us need to perform this task a dozen times a day? How could the most
>> expensive and ubiquitous product on the market have such poor documentation?
>>
>> I would be very grateful if anyone out there could PLEASE tell me the secret
>> handshake that will let me, a proud owner of expensive Microsoft Office
>> 2004, accomplish what anyone with free Netscape Navigator 4 or Outlook
>> Express 2 could accomplish without even thinking about it, ten years ago.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> --Spider Robinson
>> <www.spiderrobinson.com>
>> And I wish I had some way to make that a hotlink for you.
>>
>> Ps--it would also be nice if, when I type "www.[whatever]," the program were
>> bright enough NOT to insist on capitalizing the first W. How much test
>> driving could they have given this program not to have noticed THAT gaping
>> flaw?
>>
>>
>
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