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Open the message creation form. How?
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In the message authoring text box of the message creation form, place your cursor in the spot where you want the URL link to appear; then type the shortened text that you want people to click on to visit the web site.
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Select the text and click the URL button in the formatting toolbar above the authoring text box.
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Open and closing URL tags surround the selected text.
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In the open URL tag, [url], place your cursor directly after the "l" in url; then type the equals sign (=) as shown below.
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[url=]Link text you that typed in step 2[/url]
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Open a separate browser window and navigate to the web site to which you want to link the shortened text.
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In the address text box of that browser, copy the URL.
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Go back to the message creation form, place your cursor directly after the equals sign in the open URL tag, and paste the URL there.
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Click the Preview button in the message creation form.
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In the preview of your message, click on your text link to make sure that you linked to the web site page that you had in mind.
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 Example: The BBCode that follows...
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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/international/middleeast/25cnd-raid.html?hp&ex=1117080000&en=ada2b57e6666f5b5&ei=5094&partner=homepage]NY Times article[/url]
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...is displayed in the message preview and on the actual topic page as the following:
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