Hyperlinks in email messages

[Clark Eilers]

Can anyone please tell me how to send a hyperlink to a
shared network folder, that has spaces in the pathname, in
an email message (Outlook connected to Exchange server)?
We have blocked the ability to send icon links (.lnk
extentions) due to security problems, and have many
folders that have long, multiple word, names such as "Feb.
28 Customer reports". Underscores don't work, but I know
this can be done somehow, and can't find an answer in
Technet Knowledge Base,

Clark Eilers BS, MCSE

 

[Gary Smith]

Can anyone please tell me how to send a hyperlink to a
shared network folder, that has spaces in the pathname, in
an email message (Outlook connected to Exchange server)?
We have blocked the ability to send icon links (.lnk
extentions) due to security problems, and have many
folders that have long, multiple word, names such as "Feb.
28 Customer reports". Underscores don't work, but I know
this can be done somehow, and can't find an answer in
Technet Knowledge Base,

This looks clumsy, but it works. Replace every space with the
three-character string %20. Your example would become

Feb.%2028%20Customer%20reports

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Can anyone please tell me how to send a hyperlink to a
shared network folder, that has spaces in the pathname, in
an email message (Outlook connected to Exchange server)?
We have blocked the ability to send icon links (.lnk
extentions) due to security problems, and have many
folders that have long, multiple word, names such as "Feb.
28 Customer reports". Underscores don't work, but I know
this can be done somehow, and can't find an answer in
Technet Knowledge Base,

Clark Eilers BS, MCSE

You mean surrounding the hyperlink by angle brackets doesn't work? E.g.:
<file://server/share/some dir/some file.ext>

Quoting from
<mkMSITStore:C:\Program%20Files\Microsoft%20Office\Office\1033\outlhlp9.chm::/html/rerefInternetShortcutKeywords.htm>:

If the Internet address includes spaces, you must enclose the entire
address in angle brackets (< >). For example,
<file://C:\My Documents\MyFile.doc>