Re: Hyperlink broken by Mail Merge



Have you tried the patch for XP (Not that I am aware of one for this
specific purpose and if it is a service pack that you are referring to, it
would not be applicable to 2003)

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"cindyq" <cindyq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:281670FC-8067-4917-9DDB-0B709B92D389@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We're using Office 2003 and are sending out plain text e-mails using the
> Mail
> Merge feature. For some reason, one extra-long hyperlink is broken by the
> Mail Merge process. It truncates the extension ".exe" by inserting a
> paragraph return between the first "e" and "x." We have tried adding < >
> to
> each side of the URL, but the hyperlink is still breaking after sending.
> We've tried turning off auto features in Word to no avail. We see in the
> past
> that there have been patches for this problem in XP. Is there a patch or
> fix
> in 2003? I thought it might have something to do with the .exe extension.
> However, an executable hyperlink sent on December 9 worked fine. Thanks.


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