Hyperlinks in Mails

[Elisabeth Lanschützer]

I use Outlook 2003 (without Word as mail editor).
Writing a mail, when I type a URL, for example www.xyz.com/zzz.html, the URL
is automatically marked as a link (for example underlined an blue). I would
like to get rid of this automatism, not only of the formating, but also of
the link itself. Typing www.xyz.com/zzz.html, this should be nothing else but
"normal" characters.

Thank you for help,
Elisabeth

 

[Alias]

I use Outlook 2003 (without Word as mail editor).
Writing a mail, when I type a URL, for example www.xyz.com/zzz.html, the URL
is automatically marked as a link (for example underlined an blue). I would
like to get rid of this automatism, not only of the formating, but also of
the link itself. Typing www.xyz.com/zzz.html, this should be nothing else but
"normal" characters.

Thank you for help,
Elisabeth

You can either compose in plain text or put the cursor at the end of the
Url and hit the back space key ONCE and it will remove the link.

Alias

 

[Kaskar]

You can always remove hyperlinks by right-cklicking on them and select
"remove hyperlin" which leaves just the original text. If you wish to remove
the function completely you might be able to do it via tools in the menu. Not
exactly sure where though.

 

[Elisabeth Lanschützer]

Thank you for your answer. But:
"remove hyperlink" in the context menu does only exist, when you use Word
als E-Mail editor. I do not want to write Mails in Word.

Elisabeth

 

[Elisabeth Lanschützer]

Thank you, hitting the back space key works!!

You can either compose in plain text or put the cursor at the end of the
Url and hit the back space key ONCE and it will remove the link.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Thank you, hitting the back space key works!!

You're welcome.

Alias

 

[Elisabeth Lanschützer]

Perhaps you can help me once more. Your solution does work only with html
mails, not with rich-text an plain text mails, which are the standard formats
used in our company.

Elisabeth

 

[Alias]

Perhaps you can help me once more. Your solution does work only with html
mails, not with rich-text an plain text mails, which are the standard formats
used in our company.

Elisabeth

Using Word as an editor, with both RTF and plain text it works on my
Outlook 2003. You're right, though, not using Word makes it so that my
suggestion won't work and, sorry, but I don't know the solution or if
there is one. Why wouldn't you want Word to be the mail editor?

Alias

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Perhaps you can help me once more. Your solution does work only with html
mails, not with rich-text an plain text mails, which are the standard
formats
used in our company.

Don't worry about it with plain text messages because plain text cannot
contain any metadata like hyperlinks. Outlook is being nice to you by making
URLs appear as active links. The receiving client may or may not do that and
it will be independent of the behavior on the sending side.