RichEdit hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks

Murray Sargent’s blog, Math in Office, focuses on mathematics in Office along with some posts on RichEdit. For those who use math calculations, Murray’s insight is worth reading.

RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks

  • Automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) —automatically recognized by RichEdit as a hyperlink and is displayed as a URL.
  • Friendly name hyperlinks — this hyperlink has a name, which is displayed, and a hidden instruction part that contains the actual URL.

The first autoURLs appeared in RichEdit 2.0, which shipped with Office 97, and have the usual web form, such as, http://www.msn.com.

The permitted URL protocols were http:, file:, mailto:, ftp:, https:, gopher:, nntp:, prosper:, telnet:, news:, wais:, and outlook:.

RichEdit 7, which ships with Office 2010, adds recognition for spaces in URLs without needing enclosure in <>. It also adds recognition of telephone numbers, drive-letter paths, email addresses, and URLs enclosed in ASCII double quotes “”.

Link:

Read more about Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/08/31/automatic-richedit-hyperlinks.aspx

Related posts:

  1. How do I turn off Automatic Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word?
  2. How to Remove Hyperlinks from Documents
  3. How to create Absolute and Relative Hyperlinks in Word 2007/2003 documents
  4. Automatic Formatting
  5. Turn off Automatic Spelling & Grammar Check

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