I created an image in InDesign, with links. However, I can't click the links when I export it to PNG, only when exported to PDF. Is there a way to get the links to work in PNG so it can be send in Outlook?

You're doing it wrong. A png is just an image. You can create a link for the image but the does recognize text as it all rasterized.

For what you are trying to do, you need to export the file either as a pdf with links included and attach it to the email or export it as an rtf file, open it in Word, then copy and paste from Word to Outlook.

As you are wanting to use Adobe design software, I would recommend educating yourself on the differences between raster files, vector files and files with selectable text. It would be a great benefit to you.

Hope this helps someone.

Thank you all so much for being so kind to respond !

In the end, I solved it by inserting the InDesign file as a png picture into the body of the email (Outlook), then create "shapes" in outlook, made them invisible, placed them over the parts of the image that were supposed to be links, and then add the hyperlinks in outlook to the invisible shapes.

So it still works out how I sort of wanted it to !

What you want to do cannot be done from InDesign. You can create the graphic but the hot spots will have to created in whatever email application you’re using and the recipients will have to accept HTML emails.

wow, an image and a link are different things.

You can put a link over an image so that clicking the image activates the link or you can put a link and an image next to each other but the fact is, once they go into a email the link (and perhaps even the image) will get disabled by many browsers so the user just gets NOTHING at their end.