Simon asked how he could get a list of his Outlook contacts saved as a Web page, using Word. He used Word's mail-merge feature to extract the Outlook address book into a document, but when he converted the document to a Web page, the e-mail addresses were not "clickable."
The easiest way to convert the actual e-mail addresses to hyperlinks is to use Word's AutoFormat feature. All you need to do is make sure that AutoFormat is correctly configured, and then it will convert all the e-mail addresses to usable links.
Unfortunately, the AutoFormat feature isn't directly accessible in Word—you need to add it to the Quick Access Toolbar. Follow these steps:
To use the AutoFormat feature, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The AutoFormat dialog box.
Figure 2. The AutoFormat tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box.
If you want to make sure that AutoFormat doesn't change anything else in your document, you can do that by making sure, in step 3, that all check boxes are cleared, except for the Internet and Network Paths with Hyperlinks check box.
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2017-01-09 21:50:49
Steve Margulis
Thank you for your straightforward answer to a problem that long bothered me. I would suggest that you add to your steps that after the user pastes a URL, the user should mark it, then click on/open the AutoFormat icon, and click OK. That's when the URL becomes a hyperlink. If that is not made clear to the user, the user might think there was something wrong with the instructions you provided, or with following the instructions, or with AutoFormat.... That said, many thanks for the help.
2015-01-19 09:02:31
Romesh
Dear Sir,
Also pls make sure that in the "AutoCorrect" dialog box "AutoFormatAsYouType" tab is clicked and the ckeck box "internet and network path with hyperlink" is ticked.
Rgds,
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