Active HTML links in email messages

I may be doing something wrong. When I write an email address or an internet
address in Entourage the addresses are not activated. Is there something I
need to define or set so that I can see them as active in my messages? Unlike
Word, Entourage seems to be difficult about this.

When I go to Entourage Help, all I get is a definition, not how to make my
internet links active.

Thanks for your ideas and solutions,

JE
Mon Dec 03 13:54:10 PST 2007

In article <29FAA1B1-AF2E-44E3-8C12-B4D21089A1A9@microsoft.com>,
DWOya51 <DWOya51@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I may be doing something wrong. When I write an email address or an internet
> address in Entourage the addresses are not activated. Is there something I
> need to define or set so that I can see them as active in my messages? Unlike
> Word, Entourage seems to be difficult about this.
>
> When I go to Entourage Help, all I get is a definition, not how to make my
> internet links active.
>
> Thanks for your ideas and solutions,

In plain-text messages, there's no such thing, per se, as an activated
hyperlink. Many mail apps, including Entourage, interpret URIs in body
text as links, and treat them as such when they're displayed.

When you're creating your message, Entourage doesn't automatically
activate the URI, I suppose to make editing easier. But you can
CMD-click on the URI and the link will be followed.

DWOya51
Mon Dec 03 16:55:01 PST 2007

I'm going to thank you in advance here for walking me thought the process.
I'm unfamiliar with CMD's and I'm not sure if you're referring to URL's or
something different (URI's). Thanks much!

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

> In article <29FAA1B1-AF2E-44E3-8C12-B4D21089A1A9@microsoft.com>,
> DWOya51 <DWOya51@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I may be doing something wrong. When I write an email address or an internet
> > address in Entourage the addresses are not activated. Is there something I
> > need to define or set so that I can see them as active in my messages? Unlike
> > Word, Entourage seems to be difficult about this.
> >
> > When I go to Entourage Help, all I get is a definition, not how to make my
> > internet links active.
> >
> > Thanks for your ideas and solutions,
>
> In plain-text messages, there's no such thing, per se, as an activated
> hyperlink. Many mail apps, including Entourage, interpret URIs in body
> text as links, and treat them as such when they're displayed.
>
> When you're creating your message, Entourage doesn't automatically
> activate the URI, I suppose to make editing easier. But you can
> CMD-click on the URI and the link will be followed.
>

Diane
Mon Dec 03 18:19:40 PST 2007

On 12/3/07 1:27 PM, in article
29FAA1B1-AF2E-44E3-8C12-B4D21089A1A9@microsoft.com, "DWOya51"
<DWOya51@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I may be doing something wrong. When I write an email address or an internet
> address in Entourage the addresses are not activated.

When you compose a message the links do not appear active, but they are.
Just save the message as a draft and you will then see the active links.

Enclose the URL with < and > viz: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> so that
if the URL wraps over more than one line, it will still work when it gets
there. Don't forget to format with the http:// prefix.

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

JE
Mon Dec 03 22:03:58 PST 2007

In article <FC0A01C3-22D7-405F-BCA3-F330FB817B18@microsoft.com>,
DWOya51 <DWOya51@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I'm going to thank you in advance here for walking me thought the process.
> I'm unfamiliar with CMD's and I'm not sure if you're referring to URL's or
> something different (URI's). Thanks much!
>

By CMD-click I meant hold down the Command (CMD, or Apple) key while
clicking.

URI == Universal Resource Identifier. A URL is a subset of URI. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI