Thank you for your replies - I can tell you're trying to help. I appreciate
it.

However, I may have stumbled into something a bit more complex than I thought.

The link I'm trying to include in an Outlook message is like this one:
http://www.gis.co.pueblo.co.us/websi...QueryZoom=YES&

Perhaps it has "properties" different that an ordinary web link that causes
it to behave differently when copying and pasting into a message (I have been
successful copying and pasting "ordinary" web links into a message.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to this - I thought I had checked the
box "Notify me of replies", but apparently I did not (either that, or the
"notify me of replies" feature isn't working).

And then, experimenting with this issue, I tried forwarding my original
message to see if the links became "hot", and the new text for the forwarded
message shows up blue. But then in another experiment forwarding a different
email message, the new text shows up as black (but in plain text - whereas
the blue text was rich).

I saw the internet training that attempted to explain the difference between
rich text, html text and plain text - but I didn't get it. And trying to
figure out how to get back to that site is difficult.

OK - thanks again for putting up with my questions. I do search through
these forums, and sometimes I find previous information that helps. Erik



"Erik Hendrickson" wrote:

Greetings -

I am a NEW user to Outlook. There is not one molecule in my body that is
intuitive to anything that Microsoft creates. But, if I labor long enough,
or someone is patient with me, I can come to understand this stuff.

I am trying to write a simple little email message to my dad, and include a
hyperlink to a website (these are sometimes called "links" or "hotlinks" - I
don't get hung up on the jargon, but after reading through several postings
at this forum it appears "hyperlink" is the preferred term).

At my work, we have different email software. In order to include a
hyperlink in an email message at work, I simply highlight the web address (by
clicking on the address at the top of the window) CTRL C (to copy) go to
the email message click where I want the insertion point CTRL V (to
paste).

The link is then displayed with a fancy color (and maybe it even "flashes"
if you hover your cursor over it). The fancy color is visible both to me as
the sender and to the receipient.

OK - keeping in mind that I have the intelligence of a kindergartner when it
comes to Outlook, can anyone explain how I include a hyperlink in an Outlook
message?

Erik Hendrickson