Pasting links to network paths in emails

Pasting links to network paths in Outlook emails is something that people constantly get wrong. The links often have spaces embedded in them, or newline characters meaning that they don't work. I often also get email with links to network paths that they have mapped to local drives on their computer (e.g. G:\My Folder). Your recipients are unlikely to have the same locally mapped network drives as you so emailing links like this isn't very helpfull.

Here are some steps to help email links to network paths successfully:

1. Navigate to the network folder in explorer, then copy and paste the address







2. In the Outlook email you want to paste the link, enter an angled bracket










3. Paste the contents of the clipboard into the email (right click->paste or press ctrl+v)








4. Finally, enter a closing angled bracket and press enter