Is there a way to link to Outlook 2003 messages and attachments?

You will need to make up the links by looking at Outlook help. For example, you will be able to go to a contact in Outlook by following this procedure:

  1. When you are editing, click on “Insert into Topic Text–Jump link to a file.”

  2. The wizard starts up.

  3. Enter the following in the Target File:

    Outlook:\\Personal Folders\Contacts\~James White

    Here, the last part James White is the Full Name of the contact.

  4. Enter a suitable link text in the Link Text box that you want to show up for the link (or leave it empty).

  5. Insert the link and test.

To see details on various link formats, please see Outlook 2003 help. Just start a help search online in Outlook 2003 on “links.” Then click on “Types of hyperlinks”. You will find the information at the bottom.

In office 2007, you will be able to copy such links directly from any office application (including Outlook 2007) and paste in WhizFolders with a [~jumpfile enclosure. It becomes much easier.

Update, 2018: There is also a freeware utility with which you can easily copy the above links from Outlook 2003 (or earlier). Unfortunately, the utility “Linker for Windows” is no longer seen in Google search results.

Reverse links are possible too! WhizFolders 6 has a new feature called Copy Universal Link that allows you to copy a similar link to a topic or position in WhizFolders and paste it in Outlook or any other application. This allows you to open that topic from that other application easily. I am going to write another article next to explain Universal Links.

How can I create a hyperlink to send email in WhizFolders?

The following method to enter “hyperlink that sends email” will also work in Wordpad and any other Windows program that supports typing hyperlinks in an Editor. You can do this in any note in WhizFolders, our versatile Notes Organizer and Outliner. See the presentation on WhizFolders by clicking on the right graphic “Try our software WhizFolders.” Don’t miss this opportunity to try it out.

In the note editor, just type mailto:emailaddress. As soon as you finish, the hyperlink is ready to be used. For example, if you have the link mailto:support@foo.com, it will open your email software with a new message addressed to support@foo.com

There are advanced features for mailto as well. You should better consult an HTML guide for the details. Here is an advanced example:

mailto:support@foo.com?subject=WhizFolders_Query

Click this link and the new message will have a subject too!

Want to see some more magic? Try this:

mailto:support@foo.com?subject=WhizFolders_Query&Body=How%20can%20I%20create%20a%20hyperlink%20to%20send%20email?

The above link will also insert the text in the message. But, you need to replace the space characters in the text with %20 as done above. If you don’t like that, use a JumpFile statement of WhizFolders. Just enclose in a JumpFile statement and SAVE before trying the link.

[~jumpfile mailto:support@foo.com?subject=WhizFolders_Query&Body=How can I create a hyperlink to send email?]

Now it will work even without the %20 replacements.

Relative links

Question: I have a number of WhizFolder documents linked to each other with hyperlinks. But, if I move them to another location, the links stop working because the drive letters and the parent path may not be the same. How to solve this problem?

WhizFolders has an advance option to insert Relative links that automatically solves this problem for any new links that you create with this option on.

But for links created earlier, you will need to edit the hyperlinks to make the path information relative to the document. For example, if the target document is in the same folder, make the JumpFile statement:

[~jumpfile other file.doc]

But if the other document is in a subfolder “other files” of this document’s folder then edit it to make:

[~jumpfile other files\other file.doc]

Once you follow this scheme, the links will continue to work when you move the set of documents to other locations or give them to others.

Open topic from another application

Question: Is it possible, perhaps through a command line addition, to open Whizfolders to a specific whizfolder and topic? The immediate use for this relates to using the contact manager program ACT! which allows me to insert (a version of) a shortcut to a file.

Use the following command line:

“c:\program files\whizfolders organizer whizfolderspro.exe” “c:\adir\afile.wzfolder” “a topic name”

This will open the topic in the editor. You can even add a decimal character location within a topic at the end after a space. When counting the position, make sure that you count line endings too. Do some experiment and you will get the hang of it.

Another way to do this is to use the new universal links feature.