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

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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.

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Anonymous

2014-06-06T15:56:37+00:00

Win7 IE10 WLM Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331)

The Hoge.reg is for IE11.
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Anonymous

2014-06-06T15:23:54+00:00

Hello Noel,

I have downloaded and installed the Hoge.reg as per your instructions - tyvm.

Step 5. I tried forwarding a message that I have saved for just this purpose. Unfortunately I still get the message "One or more pictures cannot be found - etc." and the end result has not changed.

Win7 IE10 WLM Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331)

Cheers

Tom (Gone Fishing)
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Anonymous

2014-06-06T11:51:13+00:00

Mick, I think it's likely that several things will change after implementing Hoge's brilliantly simple solution. There are probably many things that IE8 permitted that IE11 won't and vice versa, or just things that are done differently nowadays. Among these are font definitions, so yes, you may have to redo your templates.

It's not certain that the change will all be for the better, and it might well be that the annoying horizontal scrollbar is one of the benefits we could have done without. However, as always, it's best to use Windows Live Mail's HTML editor (the message compose window) to compose messages for Windows Live Mail to transmit. That way, you're sure not to introduce features that the program can't cope with.

I think I've just found another strange problem that this solution solves ...
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Anonymous

2014-06-06T10:20:46+00:00

Thank you Firedog,

after 129 responses, finally a clear well thought out explanation, easy for a layman to understand and directions to follow! Commendable to be sure! I very much appreciate your answer!
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Anonymous

2014-06-06T10:13:35+00:00

Also............

Since I implemented the fix all emails are slightly wider than previous. I will try to explain so I don't sound like a complete numpty!

I don't think this is an individual formatting issue as other than specifying a font I have not changed any settings.

I usually, reply to emails with the message restored down to a suitable size but have noticed that since the fix there is always a scroll bar at the base of any emails and the width of the email message is slightly wider then previous so there is always the option to scroll slightly to the right.

This is there regardless of the size. There is always that extra width even when the message itself is maximised.

Is anyone else experiencing this? If so I just thought I would mention it as if a fix is going to be implemented long term by Microsoft.......
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