creating hyperlinks in Outlook 2003

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I can use CTRL-K to create labeled hyperlinks in Word 2003. I can then just paste these hyperlinks into entries in Outlook 2003, and they work just fine.
It would, however, be more convenient to just create such labeled links within Outlook itself. Is there a way to do this?

bob
 
Use Word as email editor; I haven't found a way to do this with the
Outlook editor.
 
Pat Willener said:
Use Word as email editor; I haven't found a way to do this with the
Outlook editor.
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There's usually little reason to create hyperlinks. Just enter the URL.
The recipient's mail client will usually recognize it as a URL and make it
active.
 
Brian said:
There's usually little reason to create hyperlinks. Just enter the URL.
The recipient's mail client will usually recognize it as a URL and make it
active.
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I think the OP wants to make a hyperlink with a different label than the
URL.
 
That's right. It's often much cleaner to have a short, descriptive label for a long, unwieldy URL.
Also, I like to create hyperlinks that jump around the file system on my local Windows machine (from within Outlook items), and labels are much, much cleaner for that than placing the literal filepaths in the Outlook item.
Outlook understands such hyperlinks, it just doesn't seem to have an easy way to create them (as say Word does via the CTRL-K shortcut).
From: Pat Willener Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: creating hyperlinks in Outlook 2003


Brian said:
There's usually little reason to create hyperlinks. Just enter the URL. The recipient's mail client will usually recognize it as a URL and make it
active.
Click to expand...

I think the OP wants to make a hyperlink with a different label than the URL.
 
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