Your GMail friends hate the links in your email messages because they appear to be broken. It isn't your fault. It is just that you use Apple Mail. Many simple fixes for this behaviour have been proposed, such as surrounding your link with "< >". Only a few actually work. In future other email readers will handle links the way Apple does, or perhaps Apple will add a preference setting to let users opt for old-fashioned handling of text. In the meantime, Apple Mail users can do this:
1. Use Rich Text as your setting for composing mail.
2. Copy your URL link.
3. Type a short phrase describing the location.
4. Select the phrase and right click it (Control-Click) to get the contextual menu. You can also use "Add Hyperlink ..." from the "Edit" menu.
5. Select "Edit Link..." and paste your URL.
Thanks to
Hawk Wings for the analysis and solution.
2 comments:
Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you're linking to a non-html file (e.g., a www.yoursite.com/~some_directory/document.pdf results in a partial hyperlink. Try to edit, and it wont' enable to OK button with the .pdf extension...
This is great info to know.
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