How to put a "clickable" URL into a message
 

This is very much in the top ten list of "les topics du jour".<BR><BR>And it is so easy.<BR><BR>If you want to put a "clickable URL" (an address for a website, or even the address for an an individual webpage from a website is a URL), just "click and drag across the "URL" box in your browser - - while you are AT the website you want to reference. Now press "Control C" or (while it is still highlighted), click on "Edit, Copy".<BR><BR>This puts the URL into your "Windows clipboard" (a "theoretical" memory space used for "cutting", copying and "pasting").<BR><BR>From this point, with your "post a reply" box open in www.fodors.com, you can "paste" the URL with "Control-v" or click on "Edit, Paste". It is important that your URL start with the seven characters<BR><BR>h t t p : / / (spaces removed)<BR><BR>To do this for any other "thread" (also known as message or post) - - it is slightly easier to have two windows open to this forum - - but not necessary.<BR><BR>On the lefthand side of the screen, where are all the message headers are listed, RIGHT click on the (underlined, blue) message header, and you will see "Copy Shortcut" (Internet Explorer) or "copy Link Location (Netscape). Click on that.<BR><BR>The URL for that thread - - no matter where it ends up at the top or buried DEEPLY, days and dsays from now - - will be in your windows clipboard. You can paste it in anywhere you want (for example, the "post a reply" box in another window, open to this forum) - - the same as if you had used the "control-C" ("Edit, Copy) function described above.<BR><BR>Some Macintosh user will have to explain what (if any)differences exist in "their" world.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

If the Lord is willin' and the crick don't rise, you should also be able to type in the address. Let's see if it works:<BR>www.sncf.com

Rats.

It might work if you put in the complete address, Elvira. Lets try it:<BR><BR>http://www.sncf.com

There ya go!

How cool is this? I love it,,,,, since I am barely computor ILliterate, I think this is handy dandy! :-) <BR>

By Jove, I think's she's got it!<BR>http://www.theraininspainfalls mostlyontheplain.com

Brava, Betsy! Or as they say out here in the Wild West:<BR>YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAA

Good capability.<BR><BR>Unfortunately not a new invention. Fodors has now caught up with 1998 technology (or earlier). Smart programs have done this for a long time. (See Netscape Messenger and MS Outlook/Outlook Express as just two of the more common of many.<BR><BR>Most of those programs, though, now will create a hot link if it starts with "www." as Elvira was intuitively trying to do. (Or, more likely, because she's used to using smart programs.)<BR><BR>With all due respect to Fodors, if they'd ask their community of users how they use the system, and things they like in other systems, maybe we wouldn't have to sit around and watch the wheel get reinvented time after time.<BR><BR>But it's so much fun to watch the techies think they created the universe. :-) Ah, such Chutzpah!

Does this http://www.reallywork.com ?

Tony<BR><BR>http://www.yep.com<BR><BR>Isn't it fun to play with the new forum?