Link to File Does Not Work

[Johnnie]

I want to send emails with pictures but I don't want to embed the picture,
just have a link to the picture. I do not want the recipient to see a URL, I
want them to see the picture! I set the format to HTML and get the URL to the
picture and click on INSERT in the ribbon (Outlook 2007) and copy the URL into
the file name and click on the little triangle next to the INSERT button. I
select the LINK TO FILE option but the picture is still being embedded!

Is this impossible with Outlook 2007?

The picture is on an Internet accessible web site, not on my hard drive.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Of course you'll see it in-line then, even when you reference to it as it is
being retrieved. If it is actually embedding it means you had this option
set in a previous version of Outlook. To change the option see;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/72

 

[VanguardLH]

If they are too lazy or stupid to click on the header where is says to view
the image, that's their problem. Embedding the URL is not acceptable.

Oh, you have some means of guaranteeing that your recipients will always
use some version of Outlook (which includes the feature to click on the
yellow infobar to unblock the blocked content). Once content is
blocked, it may not be available or reachable when the recipient gets
around to reading that e-mail or they won't have an option to unblock it
(it was blocked by deleting it from the content of the e-mail so there
is no longer a link to the external content). Uh huh, real forward
thinking there.

You don't want to include the image in your email because you know it is
too large for you to send that huge email or the recipient's quota won't
allow them to receive it plus it nuisances them by having to spend the
time to download the image. Yet you want the image to appear without
embedding it which will still consume the their bandwidth and time
needed to download your image. You don't want them to decide whether or
not they will see your image by providing them a URL to its file in
online storage. You don't want them to have a choice. Aw, too bad,
because you don't get to control their property. Sounds like a spammer
that wants to ram something down the recipient's throat.