Embedding hyperlinks in Windows Mail

I regularly have to send a hyperlink to an external web page in an email.
The method that I have been using is to browse to the site, copy the URL of the active page to the clipboard, and then paste the content of the clipboard into the mail composition. By default my new outgoing messages are in html.

It almost works. The link pasted into the document is pasted as a hyperlink.

The problem is that the final character in the hyperlink is "-" (the hyphen within the quotes), and that final character does not get included in the hyperlink (the rest of it does.

In my outgoing draft, the whole of the link is underlined (including the final hyphen) indicating that the entire link is being correctly embedded. But during the course of transmission the final hyphen is placed outside of the link and, while the remaining characters within the hyperlink are a clickable link it does not take me to the page.

So, is there a way of forcing the final hyphen to remain within the link? Other than converting it into a TinyURL?

Hey there... I also use Windows Live Mail and happen to be a web designer and know a lot about the whole linking system.

The problem is that 99% of the time links won't end in a hyphen and Windows probably detects that as in invalid character to end a hyperlink. I would recommend the following steps:

1. Try switching to Rich Text format instead of HTML for outgoing messages, send the email and then switch back to HTML after you finish.

2. Can you send the link in an attachment like a Word Doc?

3. Have you tried visiting the link without a hyphen?

Depending on the importance of the particular email, if those don't work you could advise the recipient to add a hyphen or use TinyURL. The main problem is that as more unique technology and coding advances it is the program developers (Microsoft) burden to keep up with the ways of the web. This is can be a challenge for a lot of companies, forcing them to constantly update software...

Let me know if this works, we can discuss more ways to go about this.