Monday, May 12, 2008

Automatically convert hyperlinks in MS Outlook 2008

When you are composing a new email in MS Outlook 2008, most of the time you will be inserting a hyperlink to a website. Depending on your email format settings, this "hyperlink" will not link anywhere, it will remain as regular text, such as this link

http://www.blogger.com/

Of course, it would be nicer if an internet address is automatically converted into a hyperlink, i.e.

http://www.blogger.com/

Outlook can do this automatically instead of manually converting each address into a clickable hyperlink. Here's how to do it:
  • go to: Tools -> Options
  • Click on the "Mail Format" tab
  • Click on "Editor Options" at the bottom of the options dialog (this will bring up the "Editor Options" dialog)
  • Click on the "Proofing" tab to your left
  • Click on "AutoCorrect Options"
  • Select "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" in the "Replace as you type" section
    Voila!

    Cite as:
    Saad, T. "Automatically convert hyperlinks in MS Outlook 2008". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. http://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2008/05/automatically-convert-hyperlinks-in-ms.html

    4 comments:

    1. Thanks, was wondering how to do this.

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    2. Thanks for the tutorial. I didn't know that you can do that in outlook. Right now it is my e-mail client because of my with Cheap Viagra Online

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