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Creating Hyperlinks in outgoing mail
2005-12-19 • Hints & Tips
People coming to Entourage from other mail clients often ask if it's possible to make a hyper-link in an email message. They want more than just "http://www.apple.com" to show up, they want it to look like 'Apple'.

The trouble is, Entourage doesn't have a very sophisticated HTML editing engine, it's limited to fairly basic text mark-up stuff like font, colours, bolding & underlines. In order to create tables or hyper-links you need to create the HTML in a better editor. Way back when Paul Berkowitz wrote a script to do this - it took the HTML from a third party editor and created a message using that code - you couldn't edit the message in Entourage, but it could send it. This worked, but it was hardly straightforward.

Fortunately, with Office 2004, things got a lot easier. You can now create a message in word, complete with embedded images, tables, fancy formatting and, if you want, hyper-linked text. Just create the message you want to send as normal, then in Word, choose 'Send to ... Mail Recipient (As HTML)' from the File menu. This will transfer the Word document to an Entourage message window. You can't edit the doc any more, but you can address it and send it out.

Bingo! Hyper-links easily created.
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