How to Place Link to Excel Sheet in an Outlook Email

[JohnBates]

hi experts,

I'm trying to email a path to an Excel worksheet to some coworkers on our internal network.

The problem is that when the recipient clicks on the path
\\nt_\sys\GMUserObjects.xls, it brings up Internet Explorer and they get "page not found"

I've seen thsi done for executables. Any way to force it to open the Excel sheet?

Thank you. John

 

[nsanto17]

Try creating a shotcut to the xls file and e-mailing the shortcut.

 

[JohnBates]

Thanks nsanto17,

I emailed the shortcut to myself.
When I opened the email, the shortcut now shows the Windows icon and when I click it I get a Windows Security Warning. I t will not go directly to that excel sheet and open it. Asked to Save to disk.

Is there no way to do this?
John

 

[Seaspray0]

Check the file association on the recipient for .xls type files. Make sure they open with excell.



A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[JohnBates]

.. I finally got it right.

The trick is to enclose the path in parenthesis:

as (\\nt_1\sys\GMUserObjects.xls)

Then you can click it and it opens in Excel - not sure why the ( ) are necessary.

Thanks to all of you who threw a tip.
John