Pasting a shortcut into a message

[Wowbagger]

Sometimes when I attempt to paste a shortcut into an email message the text
of the link appears and sometimes it appears as an attachment icon. How do
I force it to always display the text of the link and not as a URL
attachment?

Outlook 2000 and 2003.

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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Sometimes when I attempt to paste a shortcut into an email message the
text of the link appears and sometimes it appears as an attachment
icon. How do I force it to always display the text of the link and not
as a URL attachment?

Outlook 2000 and 2003.

If I'm understanding your question correctly - try setting the format
of your message to Plain Text. (Format...)

 

[Wowbagger]

If I'm understanding your question correctly - try setting the format
of your message to Plain Text. (Format...)

It is set to plain text.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

It is set to plain text.

Oh. Then try setting it to HTML and see if that solves it.

 

[Labusqueda Comienza]

You can easily change it to plain text and have all text pasted and not get
the attachment icon showing up - but that's annoying! If you have to option
of RTF - you can choose to copy the text only. (Outlook 2003).

I find that if you CTRL+C the url/screenshot 2 or 3 times it seems to paste
the text/picture properly.