Two of the most frustrating things I dealt with as a beginner in Power Automate were creating hyperlinks in an Outlook email and in a standard Approval email. In this article, I'll walk you through a quick way to handle both.
Outlook Email
In the Outlook Send an Email action, there are two ways to create a hyperlink. The first is switching to code view and writing HTML — but what if you're not comfortable with that? Here's how to do it in the standard view instead.
In the search bar, type Link to item and click it. This generates an expression that looks like this: @{triggerOutputs()?['body/{Link}']}
Remove the @ sign and the curly braces {} so it reads: triggerOutputs()?['body/{Link}']
Highlight the expression and press Ctrl + X to cut it.
Now highlight the word or phrase you want to turn into a hyperlink.
Click the link icon in the toolbar. A popup will appear — the Link Title will already show your highlighted text, and the Link Target will be empty.
Click inside the Link Target field and press Ctrl + V to paste the expression.
Click Add to close the dialog.
Note: This is actually a quirk worth knowing. If you leave the @{} wrapper around the expression, the hyperlink won't render correctly in the email. Removing it is the fix.
Standard Approval Email
The Approval email works a little differently because it doesn't have a formatting toolbar. Instead, you use Markdown — a lightweight way of formatting text using simple symbols. Think of it like a shorthand language. Instead of clicking a bold button like you would in Word, you type a couple of characters and it does the same job.
For a hyperlink, it's just one line:
[link text](URL)
Replace link text with the word or phrase you want clickable, and URL with your link. That's it.
I hope this has been helpful! If you're more of a visual learner, check out the video linked below where I walk through both methods — including the troubleshooting moment that led to the fix above.