Re: Entourage 2008 - still no hyperlink?

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M. Veum wrote:
Okay, so I'm probably like several others who just started using
Entourage and was shocked that I couldn't add a hyperlink to text. In
any event, I was amused by the various postings on this but can
anyone answer a simple question as to when it will be fixed? It
doesn't matter if you are a "die-hard" for text format or prefer
html, it's a simple and expected feature that should be incorporated
in the next service pack release or sooner. So I'm over it already,
because all the other great features still make it my preferred email
client but I would really like to see a fix soon.


simply put - nobody here can say 'when' or even 'if'. This is a peer-to-peer support group, MS staff may occasionally post but most of the support you get is from other users like you. Even the MVPs are just users of the applications. We rarely have any insight into the timeline on specific fixes, and when we do our hands would be tied with a non-Disclosure agreement.

As other have pointed out, your best bet is to 'send feedback' - that will give the developers a feel for how many people really ant this 'feature'.

Personally, I don't want it. I prefer to see where links in my received emails are sending me before I click on them. I prefer plain text mail, but I'm not such a die-hard as some - I will use HTML when it is _appropriate_. However I have never seen the need to disguise the target of a link. This doesn't make your attitude and desire 'wrong', it just goes to show that we all use the apps in different ways and we shouldn't expect the whole world to have a single consensus on what should be in an email client. Life would be boring without diversity!

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP
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