Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
F-ing Mickey Soft is worthless!
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I recently switched over to the new version of MS Outlook. I noticed that when I'm composing an email message in which I am typing in an email address, the email address no longer auto-formats into a clickable hyperlink. I've looked in each Settings category on MS Office and Outlook and can't find a solution. I never had this issue with the old version of Outlook.
I have had to manually create a "mailto" hyperlink every time I add an email into a message. If I type "mailto:" before the email address, it will auto-format to a link, but it will still include the words "mailto:" - I have to manually go in and edit the title of the hyperlink.
All of my emails are formatted in HTML as per my settings. This issue persists across browser and desktop versions.
Please see examples of issue below:
(No auto-format)
"Hello,
I've included John Smith's contact information below:
*John *****@sample.com" << plain text
(Adding "mailto:" to autoformat hyperlink)
"Hello,
I've included John Smith's contact information below:
John Smithmailto:*****@sample.com*" << clickable link
(After manually editing title of mailto hyperlink - Desired outcome)
"Hello,
I've included John Smith's contact information below:
*John *****@sample.com" << clickable link
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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F-ing Mickey Soft is worthless!
True. New Outlook still not auto-formatting email addresses and hyperlinks in email messages.
I have to highlight the text, copy it, CTRL-K to get popup, and paste the text in order to get a hyperlink properly formatted in a message.
It has been a year since this has been brough up. Still no resolution to fix the hyperlink situation.
Would be great if you could submit the hyperlink to the Feedback Hub or are you using New Outlook and unable to do so??
We need to be told.
This is a joke 12 months later and still not resolved, this is standard email functionality.
According to Microsoft, to get problems shared with developers, it is necessary to submit the problem report to "Feedback Hub".
I have submitted a Feedback Hub entry about new outlook not auto-formatting email addresses and URLs as links.
If you have this problem, please submit it to Feedback Hub.
This community forum is not the place to communicate with Microsoft developers.