Windows Live Mail can not copy hyperlinks from one e-mail to another.

Anonymous
2013-11-20T10:57:38+00:00

Hey all.

Long story short, I am writing this for my mother who current runs a dog boarding business as well as various other e-mail accounts, ranging from fan clubs to personal ones. She has a draft e-mail saved which contains information and links she would COPY and PASTE into e-mails prior to sending them. Essentially, these are signatures. No matter which signature she copies and pastes, each one has at least one weblink.

As of yesterday, when copying and pasting that information, the link does not copy with the text. Instead of pasting the text as a hyperlink, like she has been able to, it simply shows the text without any clickable option.

I have double checked the options, Read all messages in plain text is unticked, as well as the Mail Sending Format and News Sending Formation both being set to HTML.

Can anyone help please?

Thank you.

Windows for home | Other | Email and communications

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-25T03:48:48+00:00

    I have the latest version. I just upgraded from Win 8 to Win 8.1. Everything worked fine in Win 8. I have an 8 GB Lenovo H535 with AMD A8 6700 processor.

    Hyperlinks in text copied from another email and IE do not transfer; neither does color of the text copied unless it is the main body color. The big problem is hyperlinks; I can live without color transfer, but hyperlinks are much to cumbersome to reenter.

    This problem has been reported to you in October. It is now January 24, and nothing has been done to correct it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-20T23:55:37+00:00

    Hello there,

    I have seen your reply - and - what you have said is way over my head, and I suspect, way over the heads of most people trying to find a solution to this issue.  Can you please use laymen's terms?  And if this is a Microsoft fault ( if it is ) a correction should be forthcoming, rather than so called workarounds put forth by every Tom, Dick, and Harry who are not Microsoft engineers.

    My 2 cents worth.

    Tom

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-20T23:19:30+00:00

    Problem hit me when I went from Windows 8 to 8.1. Didn't realise Microsoft had also managed to screw things up for earlier versions of Windows. What a monumental ****-up! I hope that someone has been sacked for incompetence. ...and still no sign of a fix. What are they doing????

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-20T21:09:24+00:00

    Me too, I have two PCs working with "Windows Live Mail 2012 - compilation 16.4.3508.0205" and "IE 11 Version 11.0.9600.16476 with Update Version 11.0.2 KB2898785", (One Laptop with Windows 8.1 and one Desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium", It's exactly same error.  When I copy or cut text with hyperlinks from one email to other email (From or To any folder) it's lose hiperlink on paste; Even some times I lose text format, It's FATAL!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-18T10:54:45+00:00

    But where should I do all this?

    Anyway I uninstalled the IE11 update (I have Windows 7) and now everything's ok.

    It is so bad that Microsoft didn't try to fix this.

    Thanks to all of you

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