Figure 7-23. You can easily link to a location in the current document. in Visual Basic .NET

Generating QR in Visual Basic .NET Figure 7-23. You can easily link to a location in the current document.

Note This method is most commonly used when you have opened a document in Word and are inserting a hyperlink in that document rather than in a separate e-mail message.

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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out Inserting a Hyperlink to a New Document If you select Create New Document in the Link To bar of the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, you can specify the path to a new document and choose to either edit the document now or insert the hyperlink for later editing. You ll most often use this method for inserting hyperlinks in a Word document rather than in an e-mail message. Inserting a Hyperlink to an E-Mail Address If you select E-Mail Address in the Link To bar, you can easily insert an e-mail address as a hyperlink in a message. When recipients click the hyperlink, their e-mail programs will open a new e-mail message addressed to the person you have specified in the hyperlink. Although you can simply type the e-mail address in the message and let Outlook convert it to a mailto: link, you might prefer to use the Insert Hyperlink dialog box instead (when Word is your e-mail editor). As Figure 7-24 shows, you can use this dialog box to select from a list of e-mail addresses you have recently used on your system and to specify the subject for the message as well as the address.

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Figure 7-24. You can insert a mailto: hyperlink with extra options when Word is your e-mail editor.

Removing a Hyperlink To remove a hyperlink, right-click in the hyperlink and then choose Remove Hyperlink from the shortcut menu. Outlook retains the underlying text but removes the hyperlink.

Occasionally, you ll want to insert a file in the body of a message rather than attaching it to the message. For example, you might want to include a text file, a Word document, or another document as part of the message. Follow these steps to insert a file:

2 Locate and select the file to insert, and click the arrow beside the Insert button. 3 Click Insert As Text to insert the file in the body of the message.

Use the clipboard to insert a file In some cases, you ll find it easier to use the clipboard to insert a file in a message, par ticularly if the file is already open in another window. (Just select the file and copy and paste or cut and paste it into the message.) You can also use the clipboard when you need to insert only a portion of a file, such as a few paragraphs from a document.

To attach a file to a message, you can use the steps described in the preceding section for inserting a file, with one difference: in step 3, click Insert rather than Insert As Text. Alterna tively, you can click the paper clip icon on the toolbar to insert a file as an attachment, or you can simply drag the file into the message window.

With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient s program supports the vCard standard (as most do). Here s how to share your contact information with others using a vCard:

1 In Outlook, open the Contacts folder and select the contact item you want to send. 2 Choose Action, Forward As vCard. Outlook inserts the vCard into the message. 3 Complete the message as you normally would and click Send.

Tip Send data as an Outlook item If you know that the recipient uses Outlook, you can right-click the contact and choose Forward or select the contact and choose Action, Forward to send the contact data as an Outlook contact item. Outlook users can also use vCard attachments.