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
    2014-06-02T12:28:08+00:00

    Noel,

    WLMail 2012 on W7 with IE11

    Highlight a link, right click, Copy, then Paste to an email yields:

    <DIV><SPAN><A style=3D'href: =

    "http://www.............../contact/FAQ.htm"'><FONT

    face=3DCalibri><FONT style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 14pt" =

    color=3D#0563c1>Additional

    FAQs=E2=80=A6.</FONT></FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>

    Highlight a link, right click, Copy shortcut, then Paste to an email yields:

    <DIV><A title=3D"Additional FAQs=E2=80=A6"

    href=3D"Additional">http://www............./contact/FAQ.htm">Additional =

    FAQs=E2=80=A6</A></DIV>

    WLMail 2012 on W8.1

    Copy just copies the text and does not have <A style=.

    Copy shortcut copies the link.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T13:15:01+00:00

    So now we know the problem, over to Microsoft to fix it please.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T15:55:19+00:00

    OK, it's about time we got a rigorous error description. How about

    Using Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 11, if copied text on the Windows clipboard contains an embedded hyperlink, then pasting the text into a Windows Live Mail message will only yield an active hyperlink if the anchor of the copied hyperlink is its URL. This applies whether the source is a mail message, a web page or a richly-formatted document.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T16:07:19+00:00

    WLMail 2012 on W8.1

    Copy just copies the text and does not have <A style=.

    You mean this works as you would expect it to, and not like it does on W7? So the bug only affects W7? And perhaps only WLMail 2012?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T20:10:07+00:00

    IVery good definition Firedog, but in the interests of rigour, the same error occurs in Win 8 and 8.1.  In fact, it only manifested itself with the release of 8.1

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