How to Insert a Link in an Email with Windows Mail or Outlook Express

Every page on the web has an address. By linking to its address, you can send anybody to it easily and from anywhere — from another web page or from an email, for example.

In Windows Mail and Outlook Express, creating such a link is particularly easy. You can link any word in your message to any page on the web, and when the recipient clicks the link, the page opens automatically.

Insert a Link in an Email with Windows Mail or Outlook Express

To insert a link in an email using Windows Mail or Outlook Express:

• Open the page you want to link to in your browser.
• Highlight the URL in the browser's address bar.
  • The URL typically begins with "http://", "https://" or maybe "ftp://".
• Hit Ctrl-C.
• Use the mouse to highlight the word or passage in the message you are composing in Outlook Express.
• Click the Create a Hyperlink button in the message's formatting toolbar.
  • You can also select Insert | Hyperlink... from the message's menu.
• Hit Ctrl-V.
• Click OK.