Pasting A Link? Help

[mamaw]

How do I make a url a valid link. When I copy & paste a url in a message I can not get it to turn blue making it a valid link. I tried the e-mail button & I alway get a pop-up error stating I need a valid url or an e-mail addy even though there is one there.

mamaw

[Ursa Major]

Okay, this is how you do it:

When you reply to somebody's post, or start a new topic, you know you see above the message window a bunch of icons. You can bold your message, italicize it..........etc. One of those icons is a globe with a chain link. That is the one you use to make URLs into valid links.

If you want to paste a link, you click on this icon. It tells you to put a url in. You can either type it in, or paste it in. When you click on 'ok', another little window pops up, asking you to name your url. You now have the choice of either just putting the url in again, or whatever you want, like, "click here" or whatever.

When you click on ok, the valid link will be in your message (you won't really see it as a link until you go to preview, which is where you test if it works, and if it does, you click on 'add reply'. It won't be blue, unless you also decide to highlight whatever the name is you gave the link (which will be in between a lot of stuff with brackets) and tell it to be blue. You don't need to do that, it will be underlined, which identifies it as a link. Everybody will know that (I hope ).