Linking to other threads
 

Hi all,

Often folks top a useful thread for someone. However, the topped thread can easily disappear on a busy day.

I suggest that you copy a link to the other thread on the thread of interest.

You can do this by going to the "target" thread, RIGHT clicking on the title, clicking "copy short cut", going back to the original thread, posting a reply, and keying "CTRL + V" to paste the link.

Thanks, Ira. That's a great little tidbit of info to know. I know I regularly top threads for people, but yours is a better idea. :)

I appreciate that tip, ira. I never did bother to take the time to learn how to do that, and it's a useful thing to know!

Ditto here, Ira. I'm a computer dunce and appreciate the tip.

I've always wondered how people did that. Thanks, Ira.

Just one thing to add to Ira's very useful tip, for those of us who don't do Windows:

If you use a Mac and don't have a 2-button mouse, you can accomplish the same thing by holding down the Control key while you click on the thread title.

Yes, thanks, ira. This is so useful, it now makes me chuckle when I was viewed as a (mildly) lunatic crusader, urging on just about every other post that fodors needed to adopt something like this - - I proposed that every post ought to have a unique "timestamp" so that it could be specifically and easily located.

See http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...mp;tid=1286331

:)

Best wishes,

Rex

Oh ira, you are so cool. I always have trouble with that :)

Ira, I just did my first thread linking thingy at:
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34537303

I *do* hope I made you proud!! :)

Now we can shamelessly "advertise" by sneaking links to our own postings into other threads :D

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34526295

Glad to have helped.

>Now we can shamelessly "advertise" ...

Oh, I always do that. :)

Ira, you're the best! :D

Thanks Ira. When a question comes up that I've already answered several times, I can now link to a previous post, instead of typing the same answer over and over and over again. This will save me time, and perhaps I'll be more inclined to answer some of those, "oh no, not THIS question again" posts. Peace. :)>-

Robyn

topping

I'm going to top this by responding.

Alternatively, what I do is to use the right click and then do "Open in New Window." Then I highlight the entire URL and delete the extraneous stuff after tid=xxxxxxx . (Everything starting with &numresponses etc. can be deleted.)

Then I highlight the whole URL again.

It's a little more laborious, but the advantage is that the thread takes up the entire new window. Ira's method will have the thread of interest display in the right panel.

I'll also link this to the Paris Superthread.

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34519236

Ira the champion of Fodors for Dummies, thanks from a dummy
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34536586

Did it work?