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Outlook 2003 is not creating a hyperlink to my email address. After composing
my message, I insert my email address and Outlook recognizes it. The problem
is, once it's sent the recipient can't click on the address and have it open
automatically.

I had no problem doing this in Outlook Express. Is this just a setting I
need to make a change to?

Thanks in advance
 
No. There is not a problem with the reply function. The problem is after
composing my email, if I enter another email address ([email protected]) for
the recipient to reply to, that address will not automatically become a
hyperlink which the recipient can click on.
The only way I've found for that to work is if I enter the address as follows:
mailto:[email protected]

Once I enter the mailto:, the address then becomes a hyperlink which the
person can click on and the email program will open up.
 
What is the message format you are using? If using Rich Text or HTML, does it work?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Sarge asked:

| No. There is not a problem with the reply function. The problem is
| after composing my email, if I enter another email address
| ([email protected]) for the recipient to reply to, that address will
| not automatically become a hyperlink which the recipient can click on.
| The only way I've found for that to work is if I enter the address as
| follows: mailto:[email protected]
|
| Once I enter the mailto:, the address then becomes a hyperlink which
| the person can click on and the email program will open up.
|
|
| "K. Orland" wrote:
|
|| Are you saying that if your recipient clicks on the Reply button,
|| nothing happens?
|| --
|| Kathleen Orland
||
|| http://www.howto-outlook.com/
||
||
||
|| "Sarge" wrote:
||
||| Outlook 2003 is not creating a hyperlink to my email address. After
||| composing my message, I insert my email address and Outlook
||| recognizes it. The problem is, once it's sent the recipient can't
||| click on the address and have it open automatically.
|||
||| I had no problem doing this in Outlook Express. Is this just a
||| setting I need to make a change to?
|||
||| Thanks in advance
 
Milly,

You hit the nail on the head. The original format was "Plain Text". Once I
changed it to "Rich Text", the hyperlink worked.

Thanks for the help!
Sarge
 
You're welcome - happy holidays.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Sarge asked:

| Milly,
|
| You hit the nail on the head. The original format was "Plain Text".
| Once I changed it to "Rich Text", the hyperlink worked.
|
| Thanks for the help!
| Sarge
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What is the message format you are using? If using Rich Text or
|| HTML, does it work?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Sarge asked:
||
||| No. There is not a problem with the reply function. The problem is
||| after composing my email, if I enter another email address
||| ([email protected]) for the recipient to reply to, that address will
||| not automatically become a hyperlink which the recipient can click
||| on. The only way I've found for that to work is if I enter the
||| address as follows: mailto:[email protected]
|||
||| Once I enter the mailto:, the address then becomes a hyperlink which
||| the person can click on and the email program will open up.
|||
|||
||| "K. Orland" wrote:
|||
|||| Are you saying that if your recipient clicks on the Reply button,
|||| nothing happens?
|||| --
|||| Kathleen Orland
||||
|||| http://www.howto-outlook.com/
||||
||||
||||
|||| "Sarge" wrote:
||||
||||| Outlook 2003 is not creating a hyperlink to my email address.
||||| After composing my message, I insert my email address and Outlook
||||| recognizes it. The problem is, once it's sent the recipient can't
||||| click on the address and have it open automatically.
|||||
||||| I had no problem doing this in Outlook Express. Is this just a
||||| setting I need to make a change to?
|||||
||||| Thanks in advance
 
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