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Tech Tip Tuesday: “Shoot Me The Link”

Where's the one stop shop for almost all these days? The right! As of 1, 2016 it is estimated that there are about 47 Billion web pages on the World Wide Web. (FYI: There's only about 7 Billion people on Earth today.) All 47 Billion of those web pages have addresses and believe it  or not, they're all different.

The good thing is that we don't have to know the address of a web page in order to find it. That's the beauty of search engines. Say you wanted to find a good recipe for Chili. Of course you know from the Tech Tip about web browsing that you'd search for “chili recipe”. Or maybe even “award chili recipe”! In your search results you will a list of titles that are all colored blue. (All web links are colored blue) These blue titles are “Links” (short for “hyperlink”) that direct you to those web pages. So, Chili Recipes – Allrecipes.com actually directs you to this web address:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjXkPKf8p_LAhVW_mMKHS6KCFsQFghmMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fallrecipes.com%2Frecipes%2F173%2Fsoups-stews-and-chili%2Fchili%2F&usg=AFQjCNFC4jKB2WWyP1gERCT7CCGJVzbhZQ&sig2=7SYGYazTquX3sy9StS7iqA

Pretty crazy huh? It's not important to know what all of that means. Just be happy someone does. J

So now say you'd really like to share this recipe with a friend. Well you can write it down or print it , or you can send them the Link. As always there are a few ways to accomplish this. As you may already know, when you move your mouse pointer over a link it turns into a pointer finger and the link is underlined. When you see this, right click and click “Copy Link Address”. You can now paste that into an email or document. The recipient will need to then copy that address and paste it into a browser address bar. However, if the address is too long, as it is above, you can copy the link as it appears, “Chili Recipes – Allrecipes.com”. To do this, simply drag and highlight the whole link with your mouse pointer. Then right click and just click “Copy”. Paste this as you normally would any text. It should still up as blue in your document or email. Now the recipient only has to click that link to see the recipe.

So what if you're on a page and you didn't use a link to get there? While on any web page, you can always click on the address in the browser address line (where you see the http://) and it will highlight the entire address. Even if you can't see the end of it. From here click copy and paste as you normally would. When you paste it though, the whole address shows up as above. Hit your space bar once and it all turns blue. For those who like the advanced option, right click your newly pasted link and click “Edit Hyperlink”. In the window that pops up, change the field “Text To Display” to anything you want. Then when your recipient clicks on your link, they will still be directed to that long address of the desired web page.

Congratulations, you've now shared a Link!

By the way, all of this works with smartphones too, but it's a little different application and too long for this article. But the same principle applies.

Author Info: Beatitudes Campus Verified Administrator
At the of Beatitudes Campus is the vision of Church of the Beatitudes pastors and congregation members to create a better alternative for older adults than the nursing homes of the early 1960s. The type of community they imagined was the first of its kind in Arizona. Beatitudes Campus is proud to continue the legacy of our founders, by being a leader in the field of aging services for over 50 years.

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