Outlook For Mac 2011 Folder Contains Excess Whitespace

Outlook For Mac 2011 Folder Contains Excess Whitespace

In our organization we often send text based hyperlinks to folders and files we work on. Most of the time I just copy the path out of Explorer and insert it into the message body and put file:// if front of it so that Outlook will automatically create a link out of it.

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The latest Office for Mac 2011 version 14.3.4 includes a variety of feature additions that brings the application suite somewhat up to spec with its Windows counterpart, and includes bug fixes for. The first thing I decided to do was to create a file with a leading space in it. I opened Windows File Explorer, and created a new text file with 10 leading spaces. This is shown in the image that follows. But when I pressed ENTER, it seems that Windows Explorer stripped out the leading spaces. This is shown in the image that follows. May 08, 2013 There is some good news for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac users. Folder contains excess white space. Items go into Junk Mail in Outlook for Mac Fixes an issue in which messages that are.

This works great except if the file or foldername contains spaces. Then it breaks the hyperlink at the first space.

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How can I make Outlook to create a link including spaces? Renaming the files and folders is not an option to us.

You can indicate the beginning and the end of the link by placing it between < and >. Your typed linked will then look something like this;
<file://c:folder with spacesfile with spaces.doc>

After pressing ENTER or typing a space behind the >, Outlook will automatically turn it into a link. This works for all message formats (Plain Text, HTML and Rich Text).

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Note: If Outlook doesn’t automatically create links for you in Plain Text messages see; No Hyperlinks in Plain Text anymore