Skip to main content

How to add and remove hyperlinks in Email in Outlook?

Author Kelly Last modified

Hyperlinks in emails can guide readers directly to web pages, documents, or specific sections within a document, enhancing the reader's experience. In Microsoft Outlook, incorporating this handy feature into your email messages is straightforward. This article will demonstrate how to effortlessly add and remove hyperlinks in your Outlook emails, streamlining your communication and making it more interactive.

Add or insert a hyperlink in an Email Message

Remove a hyperlink in an Email Message


Add or insert a hyperlink in an Email Message

It is similar to adding or inserting a hyperlink in an Email message as you do in Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.

Step 1: Select the text in the Message window that you will add a hyperlink.

Step 2: Click the "Hyperlink" button in the "Links" group under the "Insert" tab.

doc-hyperlink-2

In addition to the Hyperlink button in the Ribbon, you can also get it in the context menu by "right-clicking" the selected text.

doc-hyperlink-1

Step 3: In the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box, enter the web page address in the "Address" box.

doc-hyperlink-5

If you want to link to a place in the current document, click the "Place in This Document" button in the left bar, and select a Heading or bookmark.

If you want to link to an Email address, click the "E-mail Address" button in the left bar, and enter an Email address in the "E-mail Address" box.

If you want to link to an existing file in your computer, click the "Existing File or Web Page" button in the left bar, and click the browse-button button behind the "Look in" box, and select a file in the browser.

Step 4: Click the "OK" button.

Then the hyperlink is added for the selected text. You can follow the link by holding the "Ctrl" key and clicking the hyperlink simultaneously.

doc-hyperlink-3

AI Mail Assistant in Outlook: Smarter Replies, Clearer Communication (one-click magic!) FREE

Streamline your daily Outlook tasks with the AI Mail Assistant from Kutools for Outlook. This powerful tool learns from your past emails to offer intelligent and accurate responses, optimize your email content, and help you draft and refine messages effortlessly.
doc ai email handle

This feature supports:

  • Smart Replies: Get responses crafted from your past conversations—tailored, precise, and ready to go.
  • Enhanced Content: Automatically refine your email text for clarity and impact.
  • Effortless Composition: Just provide keywords, and let AI handle the rest, with multiple writing styles.
  • Intelligent Extensions: Expand your thoughts with context-aware suggestions.
  • Summarization: Get concise overviews of long emails instantly.
  • Global Reach: Translate your emails into any language with ease.

This feature supports:

  • Smart email replies
  • Optimized content
  • Keyword-based drafts
  • Intelligent content extension
  • Email summarization
  • Multi-language translation

Best of all, this feature is completely free forever! Don’t wait—download AI Mail Assistant now and enjoy!


Remove a hyperlink in an Email Message

It is quite easy to remove a hyperlink in an Email message in Microsoft Outlook.

Step 1: Select the text with the hyperlink that you will remove.

Step 2: "Right-click" the selected text, and click the "Remove Hyperlink" item in the context menu.

doc-hyperlink-4

Now the hyperlink is removed from the selected text.


Best Office Productivity Tools

Breaking News: Kutools for Outlook Launches Free Version!

Experience the all-new Kutools for Outlook with 100+ incredible features! Click to download now!

🤖 Kutools AI : Uses advanced AI technology to handle emails effortlessly, including replying, summarizing, optimizing, extending, translating, and composing emails.

📧 Email Automation: Auto Reply (Available for POP and IMAP)  /  Schedule Send Emails  /  Auto CC/BCC by Rules When Sending Email  /  Auto Forward (Advanced Rules)   /  Auto Add Greeting   /  Automatically Split Multi-Recipient Emails into Individual Messages ...

📨 Email Management: Recall Emails  /  Block Scam Emails by Subjects and Others  /  Delete Duplicate Emails  /  Advanced Search  /  Consolidate Folders ...

📁 Attachments ProBatch Save  /  Batch Detach  /  Batch Compress  /  Auto Save   /  Auto Detach  /  Auto Compress ...

🌟 Interface Magic: 😊More Pretty and Cool Emojis   /  Remind you when important emails come  /  Minimize Outlook Instead of Closing ...

👍 One-click Wonders: Reply All with Attachments  /   Anti-Phishing Emails  /  🕘Show Sender's Time Zone ...

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 Contacts & Calendar: Batch Add Contacts From Selected Emails  /  Split a Contact Group to Individual Groups  /  Remove Birthday Reminders ...

Use Kutools in your preferred language – supports English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, and 40+ others!

Instantly unlock Kutools for Outlook with a single click. Don't wait, download now and boost your efficiency!

kutools for outlook features1 kutools for outlook features2