How to create a link to a location in the body of an email in Outlook

Question

Is there a way to create a hyperlink in an email that refers to another location within that same email?

All intended recipients are all Outlook users, so if there is a solution for only that case, even that will be great!

Asarum

Answer 1

When you create new e-mail in Outlook (I have 2007):

1. Go to 'Insert' tab in main menu

2. Find 'Hyperlink' button.

3. In the opened form you'll be able to chose somethings like "another place in this document"

4. This will work if you want to link to headers. If you want to link to an arbitrary location, you will need to add a bookmark to that location first (button near the hyperlink button). You will then be able to create a hyperlink to this bookmark.

I have Russian localization so I'm not sure if I translated everything correct.

Benjy

Answer 2

In a new email or when editing existing email:

1. First stand on the line/location and mark/highlight the text part you want to link to
2. Click on Insert tab
3. From the top banner click on Bookmark A bookmark dialog will popup, which looks like this (i've already picked a name for my bookmark):

4. Type a name to your bookmark (should not start with a number or special characters)- then click on the Add button.

5. Now go to the location you want to link from and select the desired text.

6. Right click on the selected text -> click on Link (or hyperlink in older outlook versions)

7. In the Insert Hyperlink dialog pick "Place in This Document" - there you will see your bookmarks, select the relevant bookmark you've created and click OK - DONE!

Barring

Answer 3

In case somebody came across this question while trying to understand how to implement that in HTML:

1. Add a named link or anchor to the desired destination place:

<a name="PO123" style="color: black;text-decoration: none">PO123</a>

2. Add a hyperlink to the desired "source" place:

<a href="#PO123">PO123</a>

Note the presence of the "#" symbol.

That works well in Outlook and a web browser.

Disposure

Answer 4

If you build the email in html, you will need to use as the anchor. You then refer to the anchor with some text here

Angeliqueangelis