specific to this forum: How do you create a short cut within the narrative?

specific to this forum: how do you create a short cut (highlighted) within the narrative?

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I usually type my answer on a word processing program, (either in Microsoft outlook or word), to compose and check spelling. In my narrative when I have a web address, it is highlighted blue, and is "clickable" for immediate access to the site. When I "copy and paste" the composition into this forum, the address is simply another group of letters and numbers... No shortcut.

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I notice others (John Collier is good at this)have no problem incorporating a shortcut into a response... what is the secret? Thanks

Al, go to the View menu and select "Page Source" or "Source" when

you're on a page that contains one of the clickable links you

mention. You're pasting in the URL,

e.g. "http://www.blahblah.com/blah/blah.jpg" but you need to surround

it with a tad bit of HTML. It's not that big of a deal, though.

Check out the "page source" of this page and find this posting, and

see how I put <a

href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/leicaforum.htm">this link to the

Leica forum intro page</a>.

What can I say? Tony taught me everything I know. Thanks for the

info and such a great site!

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Cheers

What makes it so difficult to explain is the fact that you can't

normally put in the angle bracket, i.e. the "less than" or a shift+,

(comma) and the "greater than" or shift+. (period) as examples

because they are interrpreted rather than shown, so they disappear!

In my example below, I'll use parentheses instead, but in your post,

use the angle brackets. Check this out:<p>

(a href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/leicaforum.htm")THIS TEXT

WILL BE BLUE AND UNDERLINED(/a) will look like <a

href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/leicaforum.htm">THIS TEXT WILL

BE BLUE AND UNDERLINED</a> when you replace the parens with angle

brackets. So when you click on the blue underlined text, your browser

will take you to the address between the quotes. Is that better?

OK, I've solved the problem of properly displaying characters like

<b><</b> and <b>></b>, and I've started a new LESSON thread...

please see.