How can a person stop Outlook from automatically making hyperlinks? I have even put spaces in the line, but it still does it. It is an address, but as a lot of machines do not accept hyperlinks, I need to get around it. You people are terrific. Thanks for the help.
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Hyperlinks (Outlook 2k)
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AskWoody LoungerMay 21, 2004 at 2:22 pm #405252Viewing 2 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
DaveA
AskWoody_MVPMay 21, 2004 at 3:47 pm #830740If you are referring to Web page links, try leaving off the “http://” and see what happens.
DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
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WSjscher2000
AskWoody LoungerMay 21, 2004 at 7:40 pm #830911In plain text format, Outlook will display a hyperlink but there is no hyperlink actually in the message body, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
In HTML format, I’m not sure whether you can turn the behavior off, but you can manually delete the hyperlink after Outlook creates it: arrow back to the hyperlink and choose Insert>Remove
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WSjscher2000
AskWoody LoungerMay 21, 2004 at 7:40 pm #830912In plain text format, Outlook will display a hyperlink but there is no hyperlink actually in the message body, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
In HTML format, I’m not sure whether you can turn the behavior off, but you can manually delete the hyperlink after Outlook creates it: arrow back to the hyperlink and choose Insert>Remove
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