On 5/28/04 1:03 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Thanks, Paul. I'll check it out. Kirk -- 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/>
