How to create a email link in POI Word Format

Question

How can I create an external link or an email link in a XWPFDocument? There is a description for Excel (HSSF XSSF), but i haven\'t found anything similar for Word (HWPF XWPF

Answer 1

At the moment, XWPF has support for reading and manipulating hyperlinks, see XWPFHyperLinkRun and XWPFHyperlink for details.

There's not currently any user facing code to handle creating hyperlinks in XWPF, but all the components are there (handling of the low level hyperlink objects, ability to add hyperlinks into the relations etc). A patch to tie this together to provide the missing functionality would be very much appreciated by all!