November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 131 | Add Magical Links for Email, Messages, Web, and More |
You might be used to inserting web hyperlinks into documents or when composing emails (click Edit→Add Link and type the address). Whenever anybody clicks the link, they’ll visit the site you specified, just like in a web page.
In addition to links to websites, OS X lets you create app-specific links. For example, you could include a link in a mail message that, when clicked, will start within the Messages app an instant messaging conversation with somebody. You could create a link in a document that, when clicked, looked up a particular word in the Dictionary app.
To create a link in a TextEdit document or new mail window, highlight the text you want to serve as the link, and click ...
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