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I have a table in my document (name, phone, email) and have about
150-200 different email addresses in the "email" column. They are in
plain text with no links.
Is there an automated way (in Dreamweaver or a 3rd party add-on) that I
can convert that whole column into linkable email addresses so that when
someone clicks on the address, it will open their email program?

I am hoping I don't have to manually copy each address and then add
"mailto:" to each address.
Each address field corresponds to the name of the person. Some names are
husband/wife and they are in alphabetical order.

e.g.
adam bullin
tom gregg
betty smith
john smith
tommy tomlin

I want it to be:

adam bullin
tom gregg
betty smith
john smith
tommy tomlin

Sorry...the first set of names were not supposed to be hyperlinked. I
hope you understand what I was meaning!

©® wrote:
> I have a table in my document (name, phone, email) and have about
> 150-200 different email addresses in the "email" column. They are in
> plain text with no links.
> Is there an automated way (in Dreamweaver or a 3rd party add-on) that I
> can convert that whole column into linkable email addresses so that when
> someone clicks on the address, it will open their email program?
>
> I am hoping I don't have to manually copy each address and then add
> "mailto:" to each address.

Probably possible in Dreamweaver, but I don't know that
program. I find it very easy to do in TextPad, using the
macro function.
http://textpad.com/


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One way that I can think of is you can past the three columns into Excel

4th column: <a href="mailto:
5th column: "</a>
6th column: concat (4th column, email column, 6th column)

Then just copy the first 2 columns and the 6th one and paste it into an
editor like Dreamweaver which will recognize the columns/rows...

Shahid
(remove NOSPAM from the email address when replying to my email address)

"©®" <> wrote in message
news:40a25f46$0$6320$. ..
> I have a table in my document (name, phone, email) and have about
> 150-200 different email addresses in the "email" column. They are in
> plain text with no links.
> Is there an automated way (in Dreamweaver or a 3rd party add-on) that I
> can convert that whole column into linkable email addresses so that when
> someone clicks on the address, it will open their email program?
>
> I am hoping I don't have to manually copy each address and then add
> "mailto:" to each address.
> Each address field corresponds to the name of the person. Some names are
> husband/wife and they are in alphabetical order.
>
> e.g.
> adam bullin
> tom gregg
> betty smith
> john smith
> tommy tomlin
>
> I want it to be:
>
> adam bullin
> tom gregg
> betty smith
> john smith
> tommy tomlin
>
>

Quoth the raven ©®:

> I have a table in my document (name, phone, email) and have about
> 150-200 different email addresses in the "email" column.

Since these addresses will become "harvestable" by the spambots, have
these people given their permission for you to publish them?

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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote in message
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> Quoth the raven ©®:
>
> > I have a table in my document (name, phone, email) and have about
> > 150-200 different email addresses in the "email" column.
>
> Since these addresses will become "harvestable" by the spambots, have
> these people given their permission for you to publish them?

> -bts
And even if they do give permission you should 'munge' the address
(http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php)

CM

Clive Moss wrote:
>> Since these addresses will become "harvestable" by the spambots, have
>> these people given their permission for you to publish them?

> And even if they do give permission you should 'munge' the address
> (http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php)

Sorry - forgot to mention - it is an intranet so only the organisation
can access it. (Private phone list!)

Shahid Juma wrote:
> One way that I can think of is you can past the three columns into
> Excel
>
> 4th column: <a href="mailto:
> 5th column: "</a>
> 6th column: concat (4th column, email column, 6th column)
>
> Then just copy the first 2 columns and the 6th one and paste it into
> an editor like Dreamweaver which will recognize the columns/rows...

Thanks - that was what I needed. FYI the 5th column should be: ' "</a>
as without the ' it will be right aligned and have no closing quote
(unless of course I misunderstood your info!)

On Wed, 12 May 2004 18:30:52 +0100, ©® <> wrote:

> I am hoping I don't have to manually copy each address and then add
> "mailto:" to each address.
> Each address field corresponds to the name of the person. Some names are
> husband/wife and they are in alphabetical order.

It seems like you already got your problem solved, but I did this sort of
thing once in EditPlus with it's regular expression find and replace
thingy.

Find: <td>(.+)@(.+)</td>
Replace with: <td><a href="mailto:\1@\2">\1@\2</a>

I wish more apps supported regular expressions in find and replace.


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> I wish more apps supported regular expressions in find and replace.

http://www.openoffice.org/

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