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Anonymous
November 6, 2017
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Embedding PDF with Hyperlinks into Outlook

  • November 6, 2017
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Apologize if this has been asked a million times.

I have a PDF I've created through Word with hyperlinks and I would like to embed it into Outlook and send out as a communication piece, however when I insert the PDF into the body of the email the PDF just shows up as one file and the links are not clickable. Is there anyway to accomplish this? I know the hyperlinks work correctly because if you open the file on it's own the links work .

Thank for your help

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    DanielleB830
    Participant
    January 21, 2021

    Hello 

    thanks for the solution!  The process described (take .pdf, export as an image in email, insert links in rectangle shapes, remove fill color & border, send email)... this worked.  However, when the email

    comes thru the links are moved to different locations of the email.  But, if I click to open the email, the links are in the correct location.  Is there something I should have done, differently?  I used JPEG... should I have used a diff image format, or does that matter?  Also... I put the links in a text box, then placed that text box onto the rectangle shape. I was not able to put the lin directly into the rectangle. 
    Can you please assist?

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    toddd82649203
    Participant
    January 25, 2023

    The "shifting" boxes is indeed a problem. It makes this solution unusable for me in my professional application. My thought original was to simply create a table in Outlook but only create one cell for the table. THEN...insert the image in the cell and size accordingly. THEN create a nested table inside of the single cell table and start creating rows/columns as needed and positon them in such a way to be directly over any "hot spots" on the picture that you would like to make links over. Then of course, make the borders on both the single celled table and the table nested above invisible and all links/shapes withing the nested table cells invisible and THAT (the table boundaries) would keep the rectangles/shapes from shifting.

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      susanr29782679
      Participant
      November 11, 2019

      This is my workaround for this issue - I make the pdf an image. I snip the image with the snipping tool and place it in the email. (Not as an attachment) I then insert a shape - a rectangle around the text or image I want to hyperlink. I insert a hyperlink to the shape. Then I make the shape with no fill and no outline - so it is invisible. It works! You can then also attach the pdf to your email with your working links. 

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        btala
        Participant
        November 14, 2019

        You genius, thank you!

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        Test Screen Name
        Legend
        November 6, 2017

        This idea cannot work at all. Some email apps will show a view of a PDF, it is true. Some will use Acrobat. Some will have live links. Some will be dead pages. Some will be a dead first page. Most will be an icon showing there is an attachment. If you want to design visual emails, you need to use a specialist app designed for that, which works in HTML, and bear in mind that many people turn off HTML, and many more turn off pictures.

        Of course you can send a link to a PDF on your web site and this is recommended.

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