Monday, October 6, 2008

IT: how to send links with spaces in them in Outlook

If you've ever reference a folder or file with spaces in them, the link will be broken like \\myfileserver\folder name\doc.doc.

You may be annoyed by the fact you are automatically unable to send the whole URL over thus ur receipent is unable to open the link. One way is to hyperlink the whole URL (sending email in html format) but a faster and easier way is to wrap the whole URL in <>. such as :
<\\myfileserver\folder name\doc.doc>

and Outlook with automatically remove the <>'s and make the whole URL a hyperlink.

( I tested sending from thunderbird to outlook 2007 in rich text format and outlook 2007 to outlook xp in rich text format. The <>'s does not get removed but can still access the file)

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