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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 4, 2017)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Simon asked how he could get a list of his Outlook contacts saved as a Web page, using Word. He used Word's mail-merge feature to extract the Outlook address book into a document, but when he converted the document to a Web page, the e-mail addresses were not "clickable."
The easiest way to convert the actual e-mail addresses to hyperlinks is to use Word's AutoFormat feature. All you need to do is make sure that AutoFormat is correctly configured, and then it will convert all the e-mail addresses to usable links.
To use the AutoFormat feature, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The AutoFormat dialog box.
Figure 2. The AutoFormat tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box.
If you want to make sure that AutoFormat doesn't change anything else in your document, you can do that by making sure, in step 3, that all check boxes are cleared, except for the Internet and Network Paths with Hyperlinks check box.
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2017-02-04 13:38:42
Allan Poe
Works ok with email addresses, but will not work with site URL's, even though the Word definition says it will.
Here is what the Word definition says:
Formats Internet and network paths as hyperlink fields so you can jump directly to an item by clicking the hyperlink.
To make a site hyperlink active must use the Insert>Hyperlink procedure.
2017-02-04 11:28:18
John Augustin
Can I use this method to create hyperlinks on documents I have that are my recipes. Each document may have from15 to 100+ recipes. The title of each recipe is the same and the format is only used for the title.
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