How do I make a word link?

[Jared77]

How do I make a word a link in this new format?

 

[digitS']

You've got that little "chain symbol" up there, Jared.

Let me see if I can highlight a word, click that symbol and link something (link).

I guess I could now do a "more options..." and then a "preview" but I dang well could get lost!

digitS'

 

[Nifty]

Yup, linking in the new system should be WAY easier. Just highlight the text you want to link, then click the "link icon" and enter your URL / link:

 

[Jared77]

But that just creates a link. If I wanted to use a word instead of having the whole link on the post. Say I wanted to use a link to bicycles. Instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle why can't I have the word bicycle serve as the link? Remember how it used to say url= then you'd post the link the brackets would close around it you'd enter a word that served as your link to that page then it closed with /url and more brackets?

Because when I click on the link icon It simply posts my link. I can right click & paste that.

Any of this making sense?

 

[Nifty]

1. Write out the word: bicycle
2. Highlight the word "bicycle"
3. Click the chain link icon
4. Enter the URL you want the bicycle text to link to

That should change the text into a link.

 

[thistlebloom]

Testing: Sequoia
Oh! It worked! Woohoo!

 

[Jared77]

Thank you For putting up with my ignorance