Outlook autoformat when writing to Email.Body ?

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MatrimCauthon

Hello,

is there something like an autoformat whenever one adds a string to th
mailbody?
I noticed this because I've a link in the message like:
<file:///C:/MyDir/MyFile.dat>
After I inserted the 2nd link the first one becomes:
<<file:///C:/MyDir/MyFile.dat>>

And after some insertions it looks kinda weird...

Any ideas?

Mat
 
Strings that are URL's of some kind or mailto links are automatically
formatted.
 
Ken said:
Strings that are URL's of some kind or mailto links ar
automatically
formatted.
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Is there a way to disable this?
Or is there another solution when I'm writing multiple urls one by on
to the mail body?

Thank you so far,

Mat.
 
I don't know of a way to disable that.




MatrimCauthon said:
Strings that are URL's of some kind or mailto links are
automatically
formatted.
Click to expand...


Is there a way to disable this?
Or is there another solution when I'm writing multiple urls one by one
to the mail body?

Thank you so far,

Mat.
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Have you considered using HTMLBody instead of Body?

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Author of
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Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



MatrimCauthon said:
Strings that are URL's of some kind or mailto links are
automatically
formatted.
Click to expand...


Is there a way to disable this?
Or is there another solution when I'm writing multiple urls one by one
to the mail body?

Thank you so far,

Mat.


message
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I haven't considered using HTMLBody instead of body until you mentione
it.
But doing so I stumbled again. It seems I can't modify HTMLbody exactl
as I did with body. Some modifications just don't show any effect.

As an example:
As I told above im adding a few links (ony by one) to the mail body:

Code
-------------------

<language="Visual Basic 6.0">
objMsg.body = objMsg.body & "<file:///" & fileName & ">"

-------------------

where fileName is holding the complete path of the file I'm referin
to.

This lead to multiple <<<< and >>>> because of the automatic formatin
thing.
Using this with

Code
-------------------

<language="Visual Basic 6.0">
objMsg.HTMLbody = objMsg.HTMLbody & "<file:///" & fileName & ">"

-------------------

leads to nothing.

So finally to my questions

- Do I need another format of my links? I think so because the ta
<file... is not a valid html statement and therefor being ignored.
Okay this one I answered myself =)
- What exactly does using objMsg.HTMLBody to the mail? Setting i
automatically sets the Editor type to olEditorHTML, doesn't it?
- What about emails which are plain text before? Inserting the lin
using with

Code
-------------------
objMsg.HTMLBody = objMsg.HTMLBody & "<BR>" & "<a href=" & _
Chr(34) & strFileName & Chr(34) & ">" & strFileName & "</a>"

-------------------
shows the link but it won't resolve.
- Is there another solution which I keep missing?


Thank you for your input so far.

Mat
 
Ken said:
*First of all most secure versions of Outlook prevent a file lin
from being
live, so you're going to have to experiment to see if what you wan
will
work.

For files you need a syntax like this:
file://\\FileServer\OurFiles\myfile.doc

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/links.htm#fileshortcuts fo
more
information.*
Click to expand...

Thank you although I couldn't find *more* information at that give
link =)

The problem I'm facing with that solution is when ever the pat
contains something like "my file.doc" (eg a space in filename o
folder) then the syntax leads to:
_file://\\FileSever\OurFiles\my_ file.doc
which is in fact a broken link.
Same goes for other characters, eg german special characters (ö) an
such.

Thats why I enclosed the link with those "<", ">" which works fin
except the problem why I opened the thread, that after multipl
inserts, outlook adds every time "<" or ">" to it.

Mat.

ps So this works: <_file://\\FileSever\OurFiles\my_file.doc_> (not
that there *is* a space between my and file)
and outlook makes something like after a few more insertions to th
email body
<<<<<_file://\\FileSever\OurFiles\my_file.doc_>>>>
 
I'm not sure about how you'd handle those things unless using HTML escape
character like %20 for space and so on would work.
 
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