Hyperlink to an Outlook 2007 mail folder

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Jeff Granger

Anyone know if it is possible to create a hyperlink that points to, and will
open a specific Outlook 2007 folder, for example "Inbox"?

Jeff
 
Perhaps a little more explaination of what I'm trying to do would help.

We have a number of "Projects" on the go at any one time. E-mails related to
each Project are moved to the appropriate Outlook Project Folder, e.g. a
mail folder called "Project A".

What I need to do is to create a hyperlink to that specific Project Folder
that I can paste into other applications (e.g. Excel docs) which can be
clicked to open up the appropriate Ourlook Project folder.

Jeff
 
Hi DL

Thanks for tthe link

I can get a command line such as
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe " /switch

to work from a Run window, but any idea how to create a URL to do the same
thing?

Tried File://"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe "
/switch

But that doesn't work

Jeff
 
Dont know about a URL but maybe a shortcut?

Jeff Granger said:
Hi DL

Thanks for tthe link

I can get a command line such as
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe " /switch

to work from a Run window, but any idea how to create a URL to do the same
thing?

Tried File://"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe "
/switch

But that doesn't work

Jeff
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It has got to be a URL unfortunately for my particular purpose.
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There is no URL you can specify that will run Outlook with a command switch.
 
There is no URL you can specify that will run Outlook with a command switch.
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I'm not sure this is correct.

Inside Outlook, the "outlook:" type URLs work fine.

I just tried from Excel, and it tries to route a hyperlink with such an
URL through the default browser (Firefox in my case) -- which then
doesn't know what to do with it (in my case).

This may already work "out of the box" if IE is the default browser. If
not, it probably is possible to create a custom protocol that calls
Outlook.

Gerhard
 
Outlook 2007 only runs outlook: hyperlinks from inside outlook. If the OP makes a folder homepage it may work, but it must be within outlook.


Gerhard Fiedler wrote on Sat, 03 January 2009 21:3
I'm not sure this is correct.

Inside Outlook, the "outlook:" type URLs work fine.

I just tried from Excel, and it tries to route a hyperlink with such an
URL through the default browser (Firefox in my case) -- which then
doesn't know what to do with it (in my case).

This may already work "out of the box" if IE is the default browser. If
not, it probably is possible to create a custom protocol that calls
Outlook.

Gerhar
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Gerhard Fiedler wrote on Sat, 03 January 2009 21:35

Outlook 2007 only runs outlook: hyperlinks from inside outlook. If
the OP makes a folder homepage it may work, but it must be within
outlook.
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I know. My suggestion was to create an Outlook command line based on the
contents in the outlook: protocol information that can be run by
whatever program is set to handle hyperlinks. Which of course would be
limited by whatever Outlook allows to set on the command line.

Gerhard
 
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