# Window trick of the day - Links in Word Pad

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-trick-of-the-day-links-in-word-pad/635683>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 24, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-trick-of-the-day-links-in-word-pad/635683 "2012-09-24T16:31:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-trick-of-the-day-links-in-word-pad/635683/1 "2012-09-24T16:31:47Z")

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Wanted a list of links for Dancing Stars twitter.

Word lets you paste links directly. But I don’t have it installed on my lap top

Word Pad - doesn’t have this highly useful feature ☹

**Work Around**

Create a shortcut on the Desktop with the URL

Copy the shortcut into Word Pad

Repeat 24 times for the entire dwts cast

**Save** twitter.rtf on your desktop

Now you have a list of clickable links

Delete the shortcuts from the desktop

Done

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-trick-of-the-day-links-in-word-pad/635683/2 "2012-09-25T14:18:58Z")

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What?