[Trombone-l] Long Links

[Danner, Mearl]

Being somewhat lazy I hit the forward button, edit to get the link on
one line and then paste it to the browse.

Outlook actually lets me click on the link after I edit it. Your email
client will vary.

Mearl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu 
> [mailto:trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu] On Behalf 
> Of David Guion
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:55 AM
> To: trombone-l
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Our Own Ray Horton!
> 
> Clicking on a  long link and coming up empty happens a lot. 
> If the link is
> long enough that it won't fit on one line, when you click on 
> it you are only
> sending part of the link. No wonder nothing comes back!
> 
> In that case, in order to see the article you want (or map or 
> whatever), do
> the following:
> 1) Open a new browser window or tab
> 2) Copy the link from the email and paste it in to the 
> address bar in the
> new window or tab. It will probably be necessary to copy and 
> paste each line
> separately.
> 3) Proofread the link to make sure there are no spaces or missing
> characters. There should be no need to proofread character by 
> character.
> Just look at where the line break was.
> 4) Press "enter", and your site should come up. If it does 
> not, repeat step
> 3.
> 
> -- 
> David Guion
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