Tip 131Add Magical Links for Email, Messages, Web, and More

You might be used to inserting web hyperlinks into documents or when composing emails (click EditAdd 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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