Hyperlinks in Entourage

I've been playing around with Entourage on my Mac for the last couple of days (in order to access my Email from Exchange while I am out of the office).

It turns out that there is a curious feature missing from Entourage... You can't highlight a word and then insert a hyperlink. (Don't ask me why, I have no idea ;)

There are two workarounds that I got from a tester in the MacBU:

Just type out your hyperlink (e.g. www.apple.com ). When you send it, Entourage turns it into a hyperlink.

If you want to link some text to a website (e.g. here ) it’s a bit more difficult. There is no “native” Entourage solution to do that. You can still do it however. You need to boot Word, create your email there, then go File | Send To | mail recipient (as HTML). This will create a email using the word doc, and this email can be as complex as you like (tables, multi-level bulleted lists, linked text, etc).

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thank you! This really helped!

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2010
  You are a life saver!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous
  August 15, 2010
  Wow. Thanks for posting this. I just spent 30 minutes trying to find this. It's so simple in Outlook (CTRL-K). This is the second most stupid thing I've encountered so far in the Office 2008 package for Mac. The first, of course, is that you can't use F2 as the keyboard shortcut to activate text editing in a cell on Excel for Mac: haltseven.wordpress.com/.../excel-for-mac-shortcuts-why-doesnt-f2-work

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2010
  Thanks Muchly!!! I also just spent awhile trying to figure this out. Stupid Entourage - how could they leave that out??!!

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2010
  Having just had the Halt7/Alex experience, I'd like to add my name to add my thanks, though not to Entourage for this ridiculous omission.

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2010
  Thanks a lot for sharing this solution.  It worked great.  However, I couldn't send attachments in the same message.  Is there a way to solve this?

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2011
  Wow!  Also, spent a lot of time monkeying with Entourage. This is great!!!

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2011
  Thanks. It's a waste of time having this feature missing. A shame for Microsoft. Regards, Alfredo

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2011
  Thank you! And thanks, wife, for trawling the Web for this solution. Silly Entourage.

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2011
  Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

• Anonymous
  June 29, 2011
  What a ridiculous over sight. They should be embarrassed. Thanks!!

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2011
  Thank you so much for this information!  I've been on the Mac website and everywhere trying to find how to insert a hyperlink and now I know why I can't find it.   What a horrible oversight on this product.

• Anonymous
  October 04, 2011
  This really is ridiculous! I have just spent ages thinking I am going mad! Thanks for the info.

• Anonymous
  October 12, 2011
  I'm glad I don't have to waste anymore time knowing it's not native in entourage - ridiculous.  However, I can't get your second workaround to work, where the word is the hyperlink and no one actually has to see the bulky URL.  When I did tests, Entourage made the URL huge and ugly.  hmmm.

• Anonymous
  July 10, 2012
  I am so surprised they have not fixed this yet!  I would think both Entourage and Word are written in the same language.  It is just a matter of including the native library.  From a coding perspective it is a cut & paste and just massaging the code some.

• Anonymous
  August 01, 2012
  Entourage is outrageous. Thanks for the workaround, but that is still very limited -- once you get the email, yes there's the hyperlink, but you can't do ANYthing to the email. Can't edit it. Can't add an attachment.  Arrggggghhh.   Guess I'll have to resort to TinyURl

• Anonymous
  August 28, 2012
  I cannot believe I continue to put up with this thing. I mean, I like the integrated project management, but what a pain in the...

• Anonymous
  September 24, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  when sending via  file/send to/mail recipient (as html)   my signature does not appear in the message...is there a way to get the signature into the email?

• Anonymous
  March 14, 2013
  just include 'http://' before a link

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2013
  It looks like doing option 2 means you compose every email in MS Word including your hyperlinked signature and then send it to email at html. Once there you cannot edit or make changes. So while this is an option, it's really a more complex solution.

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