Long URLs broken in emails: How to put a tinyurl on your browser's toolbar

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Hi All,

 

List members sometimes post links to useful articles that have very long

URLs.

 

Long urls may break into two or more lines of text within emails. When one

clicks on the url in the email, only the first part is sent to one's browser

search panel, so a message " page not found " comes back.

 

To ensure that the complete address is clickable, you can use tinyurl to

reduce a long url to a very short one. See: http://tinyurl.com/#toolbar and

follow the directions in the lower half of the page.

 

When you have the Tinyurl link in your Links button on your browser, and

you have a webpage with a long address open, click on your browser's

Links button, find the Tinyurl link there, and click on it.

 

This returns a unique tinyurl for that page. Highlight THAT url. Then copy

[CTRL C) it, and paste [CTRL V) it into your email message or other

document.

 

Best regards,