Hyperlinks in Images

[6ftsurfer]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: Exchange

Specs:
-Entourage 2008
-OS Leopard

Caveats:
-New to Macs and hence Entourage, so may be being dumb!
-Have read the other threads and can't see this dealt with - might be being blind!?!
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Okay I come from a PC and Outlook environment, but what I want to do is so basic in Outlook I find it hard to believe it does not exist in Entourage.

I place an image in my mail, and I want to insert a hyperlink, so that the recipient can click on it and launch a browser showing the site.

I fully understand that Entourage doesn't show a link in blue or underline it (quite why, I don't know, seems a blinding obviously flaw) until the e-mail is sent and viewed by the recipient.

But my quiery is putting a link in an image.

I saw somewhere Diane put some external links for these sites.....
- can find the microsoft one, but was a 2004 link, surely out of date now, and would not work on Entourage 2008?
- <http://scriptbuilders.net/files/makehyperlinksx2.2.1.html> - but I am unclear, if this will do what I want it to do. Or more importantly where to put it once I have downloaded it (as it appears from the reviews the instructions are not 100% clear).

As I have a brand new Macbook, do I need to go to: <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1055comboupdate.html> ??? - as all my updates are up-to-date, surely I don't need to do this?

I'm not so much of a tech geek, as the people who moan about the fact that using HTML e-mails is rude(?!) / Links in a mail are not necessary. I am your average punter, with a slightly above level of PC / Mac understanding. So one level up from the general public level!

I need links - which seem to work ok in Entourage, you just need to include the whole http stuff, no biggie.

BUT, no links embedded in a picture / image??? - that I do need.

Please help!?!

-Ben
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ed Kimball]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: Exchange

Specs:
-Entourage 2008
-OS Leopard

Caveats:
-New to Macs and hence Entourage, so may be being dumb!
-Have read the other threads and can't see this dealt with - might be being
blind!?!
---------------------------------------

Okay I come from a PC and Outlook environment, but what I want to do is so
basic in Outlook I find it hard to believe it does not exist in Entourage.

I place an image in my mail, and I want to insert a hyperlink, so that the
recipient can click on it and launch a browser showing the site.

I fully understand that Entourage doesn't show a link in blue or underline it
(quite why, I don't know, seems a blinding obviously flaw) until the e-mail is
sent and viewed by the recipient.

But my quiery is putting a link in an image.

I saw somewhere Diane put some external links for these sites.....
- can find the microsoft one, but was a 2004 link, surely out of date now, and
would not work on Entourage 2008?
- <http://scriptbuilders.net/files/makehyperlinksx2.2.1.html> - but I am
unclear, if this will do what I want it to do. Or more importantly where to
put it once I have downloaded it (as it appears from the reviews the
instructions are not 100% clear).

As I have a brand new Macbook, do I need to go to:
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1055comboupdate.html> ??? - as
all my updates are up-to-date, surely I don't need to do this?

I'm not so much of a tech geek, as the people who moan about the fact that
using HTML e-mails is rude(?!) / Links in a mail are not necessary. I am your
average punter, with a slightly above level of PC / Mac understanding. So one
level up from the general public level!

I need links - which seem to work ok in Entourage, you just need to include
the whole http stuff, no biggie.

BUT, no links embedded in a picture / image??? - that I do need.

Please help!?!

-Ben
(e-mail address removed)

JR addressed the rudeness issue thoroughly in his post (no surprise there
:-> ).

Entourage has much more limited abilities to generate complex HTML than does
Outlook. If you would like to be able to create hyperlinks from images
(despite JR's warnings!), Send feedback to Microsoft from Entourage's Help
menu. Don't expect that feature any time soon, however.

 

[Diane Ross]

-Have read the other threads and can't see this dealt with - might be being
blind!?!

This is an oft asked question. If you use a newsreader rather than the
Mactopia interface to this newsgroup you can download old messages and
search for answers. If you are not familiar with a newsreader, Entourage's
basic newsreader already has the Microsoft News server included. All you do
is subscribe to the newsgroups you want. See this page for help:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/subnews.html>