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When I try to copy a URL into an email while in FF it isn't "live", i.e., you can't go to the site by clcking on it. Works fine in IE9.

mitrajoon
mitrajoon
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Up until the other day, whenever I copy a URL into an email, it is clickable so that the recipient can go to the web site. suddenly this no longer works. I use Outlook 2007 to send and receive email from my various accounts. As I said, this has never been a problem before. I saw a similar complaint from a year ago that referred to a chain or link, but I don't see that in FF or in my Outlook menu.

Up until the other day, whenever I copy a URL into an email, it is clickable so that the recipient can go to the web site. suddenly this no longer works. I use Outlook 2007 to send and receive email from my various accounts. As I said, this has never been a problem before. I saw a similar complaint from a year ago that referred to a chain or link, but I don't see that in FF or in my Outlook menu.

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Hey mitrajoon.

This sounds like a problem with Outlook, not Firefox. Just to be sure, can you please clarify how you copy a URL into an email? Do you use the "Send link..." menu item, or do you just use copy/paste?

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John Karahalis
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Hey mitrajoon.

This sounds like a problem with Outlook, not Firefox. Just to be sure, can you please clarify how you copy a URL into an email? Do you use the "Send link..." menu item, or do you just use copy/paste?

mitrajoon
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What I found was that there there are two places in Outllook that need to be checked. Under edit Options>Proofing>Autocorrect There are two autoformat tabs, both have a place to check if you want hyper links to work and both must be checked. Now if I could just figure out how one of them became unchecked....

John Karahalis
John Karahalis
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Glad you were able to fix your issue, mitrajoon. Also glad this was not related to a problem with Firefox. :-)