Creating Hyperlinks from E-mail Addresses

Simon asked how he could get a list of his Outlook contacts saved as a Web page, using Word. He used Word's mail-merge feature to extract the Outlook address book into a document, but when he converted the document to a Web page, the e-mail addresses were not "clickable."

The easiest way to convert the actual e-mail addresses to hyperlinks is to use Word's AutoFormat feature. All you need to do is make sure that AutoFormat is correctly configured, and then it will convert all the e-mail addresses to usable links. Follow these steps:

1. Choose AutoFormat from the Format menu. Word displays the AutoFormat dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
2. Click on the Options button. Word displays the AutoFormat tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. Make sure that the Internet and Network Paths with Hyperlinks check box is selected.
4. Click on OK to close the AutoCorrect dialog box.
5. Click on OK. Word "autoformats" your document, changing the e-mail addresses to hyperlinks in the process.

If you want to make sure that AutoFormat doesn't change anything else in your document, you can do that by making sure, in step 3, that all check boxes are cleared, except for the Internet and Network Paths with Hyperlinks check box.