On 5/28/04 10:52 AM, "R. Kirk McPike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Uh, you know that members of the Entourage team are on this list, right? >> Inserting a URL works fine, witness: >> http://www.msn.com/ > > That's not what I want. I want to type "Come to my website" and have > "website" be the link. > > Outlook can do this. WORD can do this. Entourage should be able to do this. > > If I type my email in Word and insert a proper URL there, and send it out as > HTML mail through Entourage, it all works. But that's a horrible, kludgey > way to send email. > > Perhaps you think it's unimportant, but the lack of that basic feature has > caused me problems this week. I'm sending out political fund raising emails > to some friends and associates, and want to include a hyperlinke to the > donation page that specifically ties into my KerryCore account... But it's a > big, long awkward URL. Good usability would let me just put "Click here to > donate," but I can't. And that's frustrating. > > When something is so frustrating that I walk into the other room and use > Outlook (gag, spit) on my Windows computer to send the email, that's a big > deal to me. Because I hate using Outlook. It's not nearly as good a program > as Entourage -- but its a more functional program when it comes to authoring > email. Have you tried the script? It's pretty easy. You can even set it up to remember your regular hyperlinks (such as might be in your signature or elsewhere in the message) automatically, and won't ask you to enter them after the first time. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
