[cw-discuss] Outlook 2003 Links in email messages

[Jeremy White]

Wow!  Very impressive!

In our upcoming 6.2 release, the need to install IE for Outlook
should go way down, and in that case, hopefully folks won't need this.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Carlos Rafael Ramirez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was tried without result click on an email message's hyperlink inside
> the text. I've seen responses says that outlook insists on opening links
> in IE and in windows 2000 bottle it doesn't work.
> 
> So tired to find how to do that I tested other way. "copy the text paste
> in word and click the link". So thinking and think I decided use VBA to
> partially resolve the problem. I made a very simple macro that saves the
> selected message in HTML and then opens it with Firefox.
> 
> That's it.
> 
> Tell me what do you think.
> 
> 
> Public Sub openMailInIE()
> 
>     Dim obj As Object
>    
>     Set obj = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
>    
>     obj.SaveAs "z:\tmp\tmp.html", OlSaveAsType.olHTML
>    
>     Shell "z:\usr\bin\firefox file:///tmp/tmp.html"
>    
>    
> End Sub
> 
> 
> Link it to a toolbar's button.
> 
> Regards,
> Carlos
> 
> 
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