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
    2014-01-12T20:09:38+00:00

    You can copy and paste a link from the browser address bar into Livemail and it works fine.  Copy and paste from MS Word and it loses the hyperlink.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T22:09:55+00:00

    Hi,

    Is anyone from Microsoft listening to this?  It seems to me they have a problem that needs addressing!  What say you?

    Thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T23:13:06+00:00

    I couldn't agree more!  There is a problem and they won't even acknowledge it, still less give a date for it to be fixed.  That is why more and more of us are considering deserting to Apple.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T23:22:29+00:00

    Sure. I suspect it works because the URL is also used as the anchor. When that's pasted, it's the anchor that's picked up, so that a following space or newline will enliven that anchor and make it into a clickable link, regardless of the style nonsense. If the anchor is something else, it won't work - there is no unmangled URL to work with. It depends where you paste from, though: try pasting this into a message compose window: Noel's WLMail pages.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-18T07:58:05+00:00
    1. open the html file.
    2. copy link from the wlm window.
    3. paste to the html window.
    4. copy link from the html window.

    5. paste to the wlm window

    <html>

    <head>

    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=11" >

    <style>

    a {CURSOR: pointer;}

    </style>

    </head>

    <body contenteditable>

    </body>

    </html>

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