Hyperlinks in Signature

[Guest]

I have a rather long hyperlink that I would like to "hide" behind a rather shorter name, within my signature.

Within word - you can assign a hyperlink to text - I cannot seem to be able to do this within Outlook. If I use word as my e-mail editor - I can get it to work, buif I send it to users who do not use word as their e-mail editor - it does not!

Has anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What happens when you send to users who don't have Word as their email
editor?

ALso, you can edit the raw .htm file that contains your signature and edit
the link there. See http:/www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm for file
locations.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I have a rather long hyperlink that I would like to "hide" behind a rather

shorter name, within my signature.

Within word - you can assign a hyperlink to text - I cannot seem to be

able to do this within Outlook. If I use word as my e-mail editor - I can
get it to work, buif I send it to users who do not use word as their e-mail
editor - it does not!

 

[AndreasRoeder]

Hi Gary,
what kind of email editor does they use?
Do they get HTML Messages? Or only text?

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I have a rather long hyperlink that I would like to "hide" behind a rather

shorter name, within my signature.

Within word - you can assign a hyperlink to text - I cannot seem to be

able to do this within Outlook. If I use word as my e-mail editor - I can
get it to work, buif I send it to users who do not use word as their e-mail
editor - it does not!

 

[Guest]

They only use the standard outlook editor.

Does this help?

 

[AndreasRoeder]

Hi,
so if they only use the text editor for example, than you have no chance to
change it!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What format is the message? If it's HTML, what does the message source show
for that paragraph?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Unfortunately I still get it looking like the following:

Click Here For On-Line Course Schedule! <http://www.azlan.co.uk/cgi-bin/E_Commerce/training/schedule_events_report.j
sp?>

As you can see the url is shown after the text to which it relates to - I

am presuming that this is due to the way that the Outlook editor handles
texts with hyperlinks?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm still interested in seeing the HTML code both for the signature in the
received message and for the saved .htm file that you're using as a
signature.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Sorry Sue - I am not sure if I understand your question or am making

myself clear - either way - apologies!

What I ideally want to do is to have a strap line within my signature,

which when clicked goes to a particular URL.

The problem is that using Outlooks own editor (which I guess is the

standard for most people) if I hyperlink a strapline to a particular URL,
when you view the signature - it seems to "convert" the hyperlink from being
"behind" the strapline and actually places and shows it next to the text
that you tried to hyperlink from - clearly not what was anticipated.

If I use word as the mail editor - all works fine, expect if the receiving

person does not word, but uses the standard editor - here Outlook seems to
"convert" the hyperlink again when they receive it - and shows it as I have
explained above.

I have amended the signtaure via going to the stored file itself, but

again when I open my mails using the standard editor - the same thing
happens.

It really seems as though you cannot have a hyperlink behind a piece of

text, when using the standard editor in Outlook - well that is what I am
trying to check anyway!.