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More Readable Links: Words Instead of Long URLs


bradl

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Sometimes you'd like to link to something in the middle of a sentence where it really hurts readability to just paste a long URL that looks like gibberish. To turn the appropriate words in your sentence into a link to the referenced site, use the Link button in the text editor to make your link.  

Before:

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The fix:

The easiest way to link text is to highlight the word or phrase you like to be the link — such as Crater Lake — and then click the link icon 
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and paste your link URL into the popup URL field.  

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After:

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I've lived in Oregon over forty years and still haven't visited Crater Lake. I need to remedy that soon!

If you want to change your link text (or URL) you can double-click the link while in the editor and it will bring the popup back.

Pro tip - image links:

You can double-click on embedded images and do a similar thing. Here I'll link a photo of our gone but never forgotten Haggis to a page about the other haggis.

Since the photo is already on the web I simply paste the image URL into the editor and hit return to embed the image; then I'll click on the image while still in the editor and paste in the destination URL I want to link to.

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Now I can display an image and have it link somewhere else. Clicking on the image of Haggis below brings you to a recipe for his namesake.

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Have fun linking. As always, feel free to play and practice with these features in the Test Forum, and ask for help using them here in Forum Support.

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