I have noticed recently several people posting links that spread over several lines. The problem with that is that copying and pasting doesn’t always work.
I highly recommend tinyurl.com which does what it says on the tin and makes a long url into a short one. Recent example:
post that into tinyurl.com, click on the “shorten url” button and click and paste and it becomes:
which is much easier and takes you to the same place.
I have tiny yurl (tho’ always think of it as ‘tiny yurt’) as a bookmark on my browser - saves a lot of hassle.
Don’t you just click on the link so no need to copy paste?
Personally not a fan because it can mask where you’re sent…
I will generally avoid tinyurl links because they mask the destination.
In the case of the above link, did it need all the advertising stuff to the right of the question mark?
https://www.sante.fr/carte-des-lieux-de-soins?
In general, it may also be good practice to edit away the cruft before pasting the link.
Yes that’s what I try to do - it’s basically link tracking information. Amazon links are particularly prone to it.
The issue here is that this example is not that it’s a long link but just that the link is unnecessarily long due to extra text that can be removed, similar to when people post links to news articles from social media which adds all the extra stuff that links it back for tracking purposes, but is entirely unnecessary to make the link work . This link should just be https://www.sante.fr/carte-des-lieux-de-soins which is short enough, and unlike link shorteners tells you exactly where you’re going meaning you can’t click on a malicious link.
Edit, ahh, I see I’ve been beaten to it by @Ancient_Mariner
I achieve the same thing as Sue by pasting the long link into Word. Then right click, and from menu select “edit hyperlink” and put whatever text I want to represent that link into top line. Then paste the link back into the post
I think I’ve done that directly in SF with the hyperlink edit button….
Yes you can do it all in the SF message box. Use the “Standard Markdown Editor”. Put the words you want to represent the long link in square brackets followed by the long link itself in curved brackets.
To get this
Enter this in standard markdown editor
Or you can click the “link” icon on the toolbar:
Then type the link text and paste the hyperlink into the two boxes:
I’m not clicking that it might be a dodgy link. 
You could always right click it and select “copy clean link” or even “inspect element”
I find the modern trend of replacing simple text with indecipherable graphics rather disconcerting
I think I need a bigger computer screen. My ailing eyesight makes it difficult to distinguish one icon from another whilst my diminished dexterity makes hovering to receive a cryptic text description a game of chance.
I need a Champollion App to tell me what they all mean
Are you aware of the “Zoom” feature in most browsers? In Firefox or Chrome for example you press Cmd - plus (Ctrl - plus on Windows I assume) to enlarge text etc on a web page, and Cmd - minus to zoom out; Cmd - zero resets to standard magnification.
For example you can make text look this big!
Quite handy if the web designer has used a fixed size tiny font.
Thanks Chris. Yes I had (accidentally as usual) discovered that. How is one supposed to find out about this stuff apart from on SF.
BTW I found an app that claimed to translate anything to anything so I sent it the toolbar (is that the right expression) from the SF reply box and this is what it came up with
Which reminds me, Why are the hieroglyphics in The Valley of the Kings so hard to decipher?
Because they are encrypted
On the doorway of one of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings there’s a hieroglyph that says “Toot and Come In”.
Where is the “I can’t take anymore puns” button?
Speaking of which, in years gone by, I sneaked a camera into the Cairo Museum to take an illegal photo of the famous death mask. It came out better than expected. Here you can see the famous mask with a reflection, in the glass cabinet that contained it it, of a guard (arrowed) just about to arrest me for taking an illegal photo,
