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Putting a Link in a Yahoo Email

jlwquilter

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Hi. I seem to remember I used to be able to do this fairly easy, but now I can't figure it out :(

I want to send my Dad (elderly) an email with a link he can just click on to go to the website page of the TS I am buying.

How can I do this???

TIA!
 
Just copy the link and paste it into the email. His email program will most likely convert the URL to a clickable link, and if it doesn't he can just copy and paste it into his browser.

-David
 
Didn't work

I tried that - copy and paste the link into the email but it loses the link part along the way. In fact, tried that several times. I must be doing something wrong as it obviously can be done!

Dad is not quite up to cutting and pasting himself yet :) I sent him step by step instrucitons with the URL so he can type it all in the address window, but still would like to figure out the darn link trick :mad: Anything else I can try??
 
I tried that - copy and paste the link into the email but it loses the link part along the way. In fact, tried that several times. I must be doing something wrong as it obviously can be done!

Dad is not quite up to cutting and pasting himself yet :) I sent him step by step instrucitons with the URL so he can type it all in the address window, but still would like to figure out the darn link trick :mad: Anything else I can try??

Right click the link and select 'copy link location' if using firefox, or 'copy shortcut' if using IE. Then paste that into the email. Most email programs will display the URL as a link. If you're composing your email in html, then there should be a menu item or other button for inserting a link and you can use that with the copied URL. In yahoo mail there's a 'create hyperlink' button in the row of buttons above the compose window, so you can use that and copy the link into the pop-up window.

-David
 
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On a related topic, how do you copy a long link and then put it into an email as a single word - e.g. convert the long link into here (which is then the hyperlink?)
 
On a related topic, how do you copy a long link and then put it into an email as a single word - e.g. convert the long link into here (which is then the hyperlink?)

For this, you must be composing in html, and enter the appropriate html coding.

Here's an old tutorial on the subject. It was written for our old bulletin board (before our current vBulletin), but it applies to entering links in html-formatted emails as well.
http://www.tug2.net/advice/cliklink.htm
 
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