How to Turn Text into a Clickable Link (Create a Self-Described Hyperlink)

This tutorial shows how to create text that is hyperlinked in a discussion board post. The process is similar if authoring a digital document such as in MS Word or Google Doc.

Creating clickable text as a hyperlink is also known as a self-described link - this makes your document look much cleaner than posting a long website URL and improves the overall accessibility of your document.

[missdedee]

I have been searching for an easy tutorial for creating clickable links for my Teacher’s Pay Teacher’s (TPT) store. Most are so complicated I almost gave up. THANK YOU!!! Beautifully explained

[paulinecampbell]

Thank you so much I have just set up a website and your tutorial was simple and to the point and helped me immensely.

[belindanganinga]

I always wondered how I could add links this way! Thank you !

[jsar]

Thanks! Straight forward and very helpful!

[ZebraSmiley]

So easy to understand. Thank you so much!

[shahbazkhan]

Thank you so much I was looking for this.

[detricegaines]

Hey lady.. thanks so much for the video.. this answered my question ☺️

[pauloviawesr.]

excellent tutorial (5 stars) was very helpful

[PAULLONDEN]

But how do you do that in for example, a YouTube comment ?

[neosketch]

can't wait for the next big tf2 update

[jennygarcia]

Can you show me how this is done on a Facebook post? What I wanna see is how I can make my group name clickable in my posts so whenever I want to promote my facebook group, they can just click the text *facebook group name)... Please please please...

[stevencooke]

Any idea how do insert a hyperlink into an Gmail message?

[bananaking]

thanks in trying my to Rick roll my friend

[RaggedGothic]

Is this supposed to work on Youtube? Because I’m trying to make text into a clickable link specifically in a comment on a Youtube video, and it’s not working. Typing Ctrl + K doesn’t make a clickable link, it invokes some sort of Google routine that takes me off the website entirely. 😳
Also, it don’t know if it’s anyone else’s experience, but I found that your vocal track was very faint; I had to increase the volume on my computer from 50 to 75 to hear your spoken words correctly.