Hyperlinks with email merge do not work

[Guest]

I'm using office 2000 with outlook and word as my editor. My document has
hyperlinks but when I do an email merge, I noticed that with hotmail, my
hyperlinks did not work.

 

[Judy Gleeson]

Did you start in Outlook Contacts or in Word? Try it from Contacts and
merge to email. That will start up Word and you can put in the link.


Judy Gleeson
Acorn Training and Consulting
"we're nuts about Outlook"

www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm


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using office 2000 with outlook and word as my editor. My document has

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Mail Merge with Office 2000 defaults to plain text. Hence no links.
You need at least Office XP with the latest Service pack to get html mail
merge and links.

Refer here:
"OL2000: Mail Merge to Electronic Mail Uses Plain Text"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;244911

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same prom with outlook 2003. Followed KB reg fix with no
change -- help anyone?

Allen S

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The cited article is irrelevant to Outlook 2003. More details, please --
like what format you're using for the merge.

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