How to make link

Usually you can simply use HTML coding in your e-mail and have it recognized when it reaches the sender. For instance:

<a href=''http://www.cnet.com''>Click here to go to Cnet's website!</a>

Hope this helps,
John

Hi John - Tried three times sending myself HTML-encrypted messages, one of them an exact copy of your Cnet address, the others different addresses. I sent them from my Yahoo account to my Hotmail account, and all of them arrived as plain text, that is not as links but exactly as sent. Not is there an "insert" option in my tools menu as suggested by byker49. Is there a possibility of having Yahoo do what Outlook Express did for me in the past (I stopped using it, explained why in my post in reply to Kees Bakker)? Or another way? Grateful for your input - Amos.

A lot of the standard free web-based e-mail providers don't enable standard HTML coding. (I'm not sure if it's for security reasons, the extra work involved in enabling such, or to get you to upgrade for added functionality.) However, hyperlinking is usually still an option. In Yahoo's case, you can highlight a word, then click the menu item that liiks like a blue globe with a link of a chain under it. In the window that pops up enter the URL and press OK to create the link.

On the thought of hyperlinking, if you use Firefox I'd like to recommend the extension Linkification, which turns plain text URLs into clickable links. For instance, in these forums, you must add http:// in order for Jive to recognize it as a URL. However, a lot of people simply write www.cnet.com. You then either have to type it out or copy and paste it into the address bar of a new window/tab. With Linkification, www.cnet.com will be recognized as a website and made into a clickable link. You can also turn that feature off for security reasons at any time. (If you enable prefetching, Firefox will load websites from the links automatically in the background so if/when you go to one it's faster to load. Of course, if the link is malicious you don't want this.) It appears I'm going off again, so I'm just going to stop writing.

Hope this helps,
John

John - sorry, no ball and chain on my Yahoo toolbar - version 6.2.4.0. There is a highlighter but no box opens when I click it. Is your toolbar different, perhaps the new beta version that I have not installed ? Tx - Amos

For screenshots, click here (IE) and click here (Firefox). The screenshots are both of the current Yahoo mail system (the version using Ajax is still in the testing stages). On the toolbar just above the area where you enter the body of your message is the toolbar (not to be confused with the Yahoo Toolbar, which is a browser plugin that provides search and pop-up blocking features). 2/3 of the way across, to the right of the yellow smily face, is the hyperlink option, the globe with a chain link under it.

Hope this helps,
John

Hi - I use Yahoo mail and cannot find an Insert menu. Their Help department says what can be done with the Insert menu (including turning it into a link) but it does not say where and how it can be found. I phrased the question in half a dozen different ways, but there still was no reply to its substance. Can you point me to it? Tx. Amos.

Kees thanks - yes I do use Yahoo mail. I did use Outlook Express before that and it did the conversion automatically. However it started cutting off long messages, and after receiving advice (from Bob Profitt and others) that meant changing some of the basic setting in the computer I decided that it was simpler to switch to Yahoo. Never had any trouble there, but it bugs me that even when I write the link into a Word message and then copy it - the color goes and so does the underlining. Shall try John's advice and see how it works, then report back. Amos.