Send page as link from IE7 in Outlook 2007

[Rob Nicholson]

Not sure if this an Outlook 2007 or IE7 question. When you select the Page,
Send Link via email from IE7, the Outlook email is composed in plain text.
At least it's not trying to send that useless URL attachment anymore. But
plain text is not a very good medium for sending links as long links tend to
get broken by the ~70 characters per line limitation of internet email
standards for plain text.

So sending as an HTML is a good idea as this handles long lines correctly.
How do you configure Outlook to set the default format to HTML as opposed to
plain text?

Also, if you simply change the email format on the Options (why isn't this
on Format Text btw) to HTML and send it, it doesn't arrive as a hyperlink,
i.e. it's not recognised as a link. You have to manually add a CR on there
and then send it.

I guessing the default email format is an Outlook 2007 issue but the
manually adding the CR is IE7.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, the difference is because of how Outlook gets loaded. The method IE uses
to launch a new mail item only a stub of Outlook gets loaded. You'll notice
that it also doesn't include your default signature.

Since you are doing a Plain Text conversion to HTML only the text is
preserved (since Plain Text itself can't hold any clickable and formatted
links) and thus hyperlinks have to be rebuild manually.

There is no way to work around this.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

There is no way to work around this.

Shame :-( One for the wish list then please Microsoft.

BTW - is it possible to customise/add macros/addins to IE7? If so, then
maybe some enterprising person could implement an option to send a link via
tinyurl which would get around the problem all the way down the line.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Or instead of doing that and as long as you are creating an add-in why not
create it explicitly for Outlook? Then you can generate an email in any
format you like with respecting the options, defaults and signatures
configured by the user. Using a TinyUrl has the danger that you have no way
of knowing where you might end up. You really don't want to go that way with
all the phishing threats around these days.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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