Universal Web Previewer
for Microsoft Outlook
How to open web links contained in the body of emails in the Microsoft Outlook preview area.
By providing MS Outlook with full web browsing capabilities (UWP literally integrates Microsoft Edge into Microsoft Outlook), UWP reduces friction: you no longer need to switch constantly between Microsoft Outlook and your web browser when reading e-mails containing web links.
For each link UWP opens in the MS Outlook preview area, the navigation context is cached (per MS Outlook session). Thus, if you navigate to another web page and/or scroll down the previewed web page and then close the previewer, when, later on, you click again on the same link, the page displayed when the previewer was closed will be redisplayed at the same scroll position.
How to open web links contained in the body of emails in the Microsoft Outlook preview area
The MK Universal Web Previewer (MK UWP) link previewing feature is fully configurable:
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature:
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
for all links:
Set the “Preview these links on click” field to:
*
and let the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field empty.
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
only for some links:
Set the “Preview these links on click” field to a list of URL templates separated by semi-column or commas, for example:
https://mycompany.com*;https://www.mycompany.com*;https://x.com*;https://www.x.com*
and let the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field empty.
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
only for some link
and,
for all other links,
activate the MK UWP link previewing feature only on Shift + Click:
Set the “Preview these links on click” field to a list of URL templates separated by semi-column or commas, for example:
https://mycompany.com*;https://www.mycompany.com*;https://x.com*;https://www.x.com*
and set the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field to:
*
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
only for some links
and,
for some other links,
activate the MK UWP link previewing feature only on Shift + Click:
Set the “Preview these links on click” field to a list of URL templates separated by semi-column or commas, for example:
https://mycompany.com*;https://www.mycompany.com*;https://x.com*;https://www.x.com*
and set the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field to another list of URL templates separated by semi-column or commas, for example:
https://linkedin.com*;https://www.linkedin.com*
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
for all links
but
only on Shift + Click:
Let the “Preview these links on click” field empty
and set the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field:
*
To activate the MK UWP link previewing feature
only on some links
and
only on Shift + Click:
Let the “Preview these links on click” field empty
and set the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field to a list of URL templates separated by semi-column or commas, for example:
https://mycompany.com*;https://www.mycompany.com*;https://x.com*;https://www.x.com*
To deactivate the MK UWP link previewing feature.
(You may want to do this if you are only interested in the MK UWP custom ribbon buttons feature):
Let the “Preview these links on click” field empty
and let the “Only preview these links when pressing Shift + Click” field empty.
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