Q. On most blogs people will talk about another Web site or blog and type “here” as a link. Do you know how that is done? I would like to do the same thing when sending an e-mail.
A. What you are seeing is very rudimentary HTML. It’s called a hyperlink and it’s done by using the following code:
You would just substitute www.website.com with the URL you want to link to.
The easiest way to do this in an e-mail is to type the word “here” (or whatever word or sentence you want to use) and then highlight it. Then select the menu item “insert” and choose hyperlink. You will then be prompted to type in the URL. This will change the text to a link that takes you to the web site when you click on it.
Keep in mind that this will only work if you are using the HTML format to send e-mail. You can find this setting in the Send options of your e-mail client.
Sending a link as a hyperlink in this manner can be very useful in keeping the formatting of an e-mail looking sharp ensuring the link will work. Sometimes those web addresses we want to pass on can get very long and take up several lines in your message.
Another useful tool for managing long web links is tinyurl.com. If you go to their web site and paste in a long address it will convert it into a much shorter address which is more manageable.