Typing a hyperlink in an Outlook HTML message

[Stretchwickster]

Hi,

In Outlook, I have opened a new HTML mail message. What I am trying to do is type some text which will be interpreted by the receiver of the email as an HTML hyperlink.

I have tried using the following HTML anchor tag but this appears as literal text when the recipient views the mail message.

  <a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com">Tek-Tips</a>[/URL]

I read in the help that if you type:

  <[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com>[/URL]

It automatically becomes a hyperlink. Now, this is kind of what I want except that I want the text "Tek-Tips" to be displayed rather than the URL. Is this possible?

Clive
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[shetlandbob]

hmm, i thought this'd be easy!!

But alas I have tried and so far failed!!

 

[Steve4321]

Go to Insert on your menu bar, select Hyperlink and browse to the web page or directory that you want. Above the folder drop down list is a bar that says "Text to display". Type in whatever you want to and send the e-mail. Hope this helps.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Thanks for your reply Steve but I already know that's how you insert a hyperlink via the menu - sorry I should have been clearer. I want to do it simply by typing text. It is an HTML mail message so I had hoped HTML commands could be interpreted.

The reason I need to do this via text is that the message will be generated by programming code (not VBA) so I need to be able to specify some text that will be interpreted as a hyperlink (such as

http://www.tek-tips.com,

this I can do by typing <

http://www.tek-tips.com>)

with a text display (such as Tek-Tips - this is what I cannot do at present).

Clive
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[Darrylles]

Stretch,

I'm not going to attempt to research/answer your question, but does this clearly describe what you want to do?:

You want to use code (whatever dev tool) to:

a) Use MS Outlook to send an email
b) Create the email content
c) Include IN that content a string such as "TEK_TIPS" which is REALLY an hyperlink to "htttp:\\

http://www.tek-tips.com"

Yep?

If it isn't VB, then you are going to have to state WHAT dev tool you are using - otherwise we will be guessing, and I'm not good at guessing from thousands of development tools.

Regards,

DarrylleS




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[Stretchwickster]

Hi DarrylleS,

Sorry for the delay in replying - I didn't receive an email notification of your response so didn't discover it until now.
Yes, you have correctly and clearly described what I am trying to do using Borland Delphi (equivalent to VB). The reason I hadn't mentioned it earlier, is because I thought it would be clouding the issue. As I see it, the problem to overcome lies with how MS Outlook interprets HTML/text commands regardless of the development tool used to set this in motion.

If you can shed any light on this, I would be most grateful. If you have VB code which successfully accomplishes this then please post it as I can almost certainly port it to Delphi.

Clive
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