Quizzes & Puzzles0 min ago
Copying And Pasting
At long last I seem to have nearly cracked how to copy and paste.
Yesterday I attempted to supply a link to an ABer and it came out in Black on the OP and couldn't be accessed.
I just did a practise link on my other computer (laptop) and it came out Red on the blank space I pasted it to and was accessable.
My laptop is windows 8 and this desktop is windows 7. My wife tells me there used to be a chain icon on the toolbar which provided an easy way of providing a link but has disappeared. It does exist on the windows 8 laptop though.
I am no means AT ALL techy so can some one tell me why the link does not come out RED and is not accessable on this PC. TIA for your forebearance. .
Yesterday I attempted to supply a link to an ABer and it came out in Black on the OP and couldn't be accessed.
I just did a practise link on my other computer (laptop) and it came out Red on the blank space I pasted it to and was accessable.
My laptop is windows 8 and this desktop is windows 7. My wife tells me there used to be a chain icon on the toolbar which provided an easy way of providing a link but has disappeared. It does exist on the windows 8 laptop though.
I am no means AT ALL techy so can some one tell me why the link does not come out RED and is not accessable on this PC. TIA for your forebearance. .
Answers
You need to enter the FULL web address (including the 'http' bit at the front). For example, this won't go red: www. bbc. co. uk but this will http:// www. bbc. co. uk/ Most browsers will copy the 'http' bit even when it's not shown in the address bar. For example, to get that red link above, I went to the BBC home page (using another tab), where the URL shown in the...
12:40 Tue 20th Jan 2015
You need to enter the FULL web address (including the 'http' bit at the front).
For example, this won't go red:
www.bbc.co.uk
but this will
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/
Most browsers will copy the 'http' bit even when it's not shown in the address bar. For example, to get that red link above, I went to the BBC home page (using another tab), where the URL shown in the address bar of my browser is simply 'www.bbc.co.uk'. (i.e. the 'http' bit isn't shown). I then right-clicked in the address bar, to highlight the address, and selected 'Copy. When I came here, right-clicked and selected 'Paste', the 'http' bit magically appeared.
Also remember that you need either a space or a line break at either end of a link. (If you don't have one AB's server won't be able to see the link properly).
For example, this won't go red:
www.bbc.co.uk
but this will
http://
Most browsers will copy the 'http' bit even when it's not shown in the address bar. For example, to get that red link above, I went to the BBC home page (using another tab), where the URL shown in the address bar of my browser is simply 'www.bbc.co.uk'. (i.e. the 'http' bit isn't shown). I then right-clicked in the address bar, to highlight the address, and selected 'Copy. When I came here, right-clicked and selected 'Paste', the 'http' bit magically appeared.
Also remember that you need either a space or a line break at either end of a link. (If you don't have one AB's server won't be able to see the link properly).
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I'm glad you've cracked it, Retrocop. (Thanks for 'best answer').
However it looks like after you entered that AB link you typed a full stop (which went red because the server thinks that it's part of the link). You got away with it this time but that can often invalidate a link, so please remember to leave a space (or nothing at all) immediately after a link.
However it looks like after you entered that AB link you typed a full stop (which went red because the server thinks that it's part of the link). You got away with it this time but that can often invalidate a link, so please remember to leave a space (or nothing at all) immediately after a link.
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