You put a link to a login-page in the mail. Then once logged in, present the user an html-page with their own personalised links and a log-off link, of course. It takes some server-side programming, but there's nothing wrong with that, I should say, and it looks professional.
Kees
We generate a Microsoft Word document which is then e-mailed to clients. This document contains links to specific reports that can be accessed over the internet. Users are required to login to the internet application to verify their account.
The problem is that each time the user clicks on a link in the Word document a new window, and new session, is opened requiring them to reenter their username and password. After the first round of clicking a link, entering a password and displaying a report, I am trying to get the links to open in the existing window so that session state is maintained and the user does not have to reenter their password.
I have tried to set the target property of the link to a specific name with no luck.
Does anyone know how to address this problem?

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