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ibz Local time: 03:17 Member (2007) English to German + ...
Mar 7, 2015
Hello, This might be a silly question but this issue is driving crazy ... I'm trying to copy a link to a pdf document into a Word document but I can only get the veeeery long address, not a nice short one (www.abce.pdf). I'm using Mac and Firefox. Any ideas how I can get a short link? Thank you very much! Irene
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Meta Arkadia Local time: 09:17 English to Indonesian + ...
Link to the link
Mar 7, 2015
Select the word (group) you want to add a link to, click Menu | Insert | Hyperlink
Cheers,
Hans
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Joakim Braun Sweden Local time: 03:17 German to Swedish + ...
Hyperlink context menu
Mar 7, 2015
The URL is what it is. You can't change it without breaking it.
What you can do is change the visible text while keeping the URL. In Word: Context menu->Hyperlink->Edit Hyperlink.
[Bearbeitet am 2015-03-07 10:37 GMT]
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ibz Local time: 03:17 Member (2007) English to German + ...
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Thank you, but ...
Mar 7, 2015
Thank you both for your answers! Yes, this would certainly be possible for electronic documents, but what if the document is printed? The shortened link would lead nowhere ... I seem to remember that in older days (many, many years ago), it was possible to get short links to PDFs. There was an easy solution, but maybe it was abolished, who knows.
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Meta Arkadia Local time: 09:17 English to Indonesian + ...
BTW, I never click anonymous links. Regardless of whether they are in dubious mails, in ProZ or wherever else.
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ibz Local time: 03:17 Member (2007) English to German + ...
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Paper documents
Mar 7, 2015
Thank you all for your comments!
It seems that my problem can't be solved. It's quite easy to use hyperlinks as suggested by Hans, but obviously this only works for electronic documents. But what happens if you want to publish a hard copy? Hm... You see my problem?
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Viesturs Lacis Latvia Local time: 04:17 English to Latvian
Are you talking about obfuscated links?
Mar 7, 2015
... e.g. you are searching for something on Google, attempt to copy the location of a search result via context menu and it turns out to be an insanely long link (usually multiple rows of text) with many parameters attached by Google for tracking and/or logging purposes? I'm providing an example of such a link below.
... e.g. you are searching for something on Google, attempt to copy the location of a search result via context menu and it turns out to be an insanely long link (usually multiple rows of text) with many parameters attached by Google for tracking and/or logging purposes? I'm providing an example of such a link below.
If so, this Firefox addon is what you are looking for - after you install it, you will be able to copy and paste direct links to electronic resources (PDF files, MS Word documents etc.) without all the extra unnecessary stuff. ▲ Collapse
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