I have finally turned into my mother.
I’m trying to teach myself how to add a link. I don’t use a mouse.
I’m probably gonna blow this a few times. Anyone that makes fun of me doesn’t get free food when we open our deli. 
ok, here goes
Well hey, got it in one.
I can’t believe I put it off for so long.
How’d you do that? (I use a mouse.)
your mom must not be in as bad shape as you thought.
Well, she passed in 2006, but I know what you mean…
Becky I think you just copy and paste.
I just typed the url exactly.
How on earth do you manage without a mouse?
More to the point, why not? You’re less like someone’s mother and more like my dead grandfather who died 6 years ago aged 92 without having used a mouse (Windows 3.1 to his dying day); whereas my great-aunt who died aged 90 last year used both a mouse and a laptop trackpad fine.
You can actually just type the url and it will get automatically turned into a link:
If you want to be sure, you can surround it with the [noparse][/noparse] tags:
[noparse]http://www.google.com[/noparse] –> http://www.google.com
And if you want to be fancy, you can use the url tags like so:
[noparse]Google[/noparse] –> Google
Hit preview to make sure you typed everything correctly and you’re done.
Ah, the old “noparse” before the BB code tag trick!
Highlight the word(s) you want to turn into a link then click the button with picture of a globe with a chain link in front of it. This one.
Then you paste the url that you want the highlighted words to link to in the box that pops up. Et voila.
Make sure you delete the “http://” the box comes pre-loaded with, because otherwise you’ll end up with two and the link won’t work right.
It doesn’t anymore, I don’t think. (Come preloaded with http://, I mean) I know I used to have to backspace once, but it recently changed so you don’t have to.
It is “preloaded,” but preloaded highlighted; that is, if you paste you’ll paste overtop of the http. If you click and then manually type in what’s after the http, you skip having to do that step. But it’s just easier to paste the whole thing, imho.
Hm, I just clicked on the globe and chain and there’s nothing in the box but a blinking cursor.
I use a laptop and just don’t really need the mouse for anything I do. Until recently anyway. Maybe I should go back to using one, but I can’t find room for it on my lap.
I do know how to use one though.
So I’m not quite as bad as your grandfather.
Oh you mean you use a trackpad?
Yes. Sorry I was unclear. I use an apple laptop.
Thanks all. When somebody can sit here with me I’ll give it a try.
I’m not “allowed” to try new things on my own anymore. That’s how we’ve sometimes ended up with no internet… :eek:
I’d help if I thought I could Becky.
I really think you just copy and paste using the right click on your mouse, but I doubt my ability to walk you through it since I don’t use a mouse.
not what you’d expect: you can do right-clicks with an Apple trackpad. Go to System Preferences, click on the trackpad icon and configure you trackpad to enable right clicks using one of several methods.
Well, thank you sir. I will check that out.