Posting A Link................

[ToraToraTora]

why is this extremely simple process beyond some?

[calmck]

Can you tell me how to do it please.

[bednobs]

same reason it's beyond some people to stop going on about the same thing.
Why don't you do a nice little teaching session on this thread, then you can point anyone to it who you'd like to be able to upload links

[bednobs]

and there you go, you have your first customer

[douglas9401]

Maybe they get pleasure from winding up easy marks.

[aelmpvw]

i'm tempted to post a link on 'how to post a link'

[ToraToraTora]

1) find the page you want to link to
2) click on the address bar, it should highlight it, if it doesn'y click on a blank part of the page heading then click again.
3)Hover over the highlighted bit and right click and select copy
4) go to the area where you want the link to appear, eg the answer box in AB and press CTRL+V together or right click and select paste.
the above instructions make it look more involved than it is but it's really very simple,

[Radagast]

Can you use markup in comments?

[davebro]

It's frustrating but I think some people are just stubbornly against learning anything "new". A friend has been shown many times how to copy & paste a link but still claims he can't do it.

[Radagast]

Obviously not.

[ToraToraTora]

Bednobs: "Why don't you do a nice little teaching session on this thread, then you can point anyone to it who you'd like to be able to upload links " - ok done just that.

[aelmpvw]

for some strange reason you need to key a word space before and after the link

[Ken4155]

https://medium.com/technology-taxes-education-columns-by-david-grace/why-some-old-people-struggle-with-tech-4deba6a685e5

[davebro]

eh? I don't.

[Ken4155]

^
May not apply to just the aged among us :-)

[davebro]

^^^^ for ael

[davebro]

from a brief scan that article seems very condescending!

[ToraToraTora]

good link ken, I have an 89 year old mate who still uses a Nokia 2220 https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/nokia-2220.jpg
Refuses to use anything else, I offered him a smart phone I had spare, didn't want it! The funny thing is he accuses people like me of being button pushers and he has more buttons on his device than I have! He's always asking me to look up things on my lap top/smart phone, I said I can teach you to google in 10 mins but he just doesn't want to know!

[aelmpvw]

dave, many moons ago if i supplied a link without word spaces either side it wasn't highlighted, which was the whole point. Perhaps it's different now

[ToraToraTora]

TBF there are a lot of people that manage of all ages, I think ken's article refers to the stubborn ones who seem at best impervious to knowledge and worst hostile.

[Canary42]

And why is it beyond some people to accept already-widely-known News/Facts unless an internet link is provided.

Here is a link for folks who require such validation

https://ibb.co/3WMvYFF