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[Geoff Smith <taurusone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/11/13 23:31, David Manuel Pires wrote:
> On 27 November 2013 07:25, Geoff Smith <taurusone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >       Wow - you're way ahead of me - I just wanted to congratulate you in
> > case you are still around.
> >       I don't know how to get those new links working yet - perhaps David
> > can offer some guidance.
> At your service, Geoff. From previous emails I'm assuming that you use
> Thunderbird as a email client so here's what you have to do:
>
>     1. Make sure you're using the HTML editor for messages by navigating
>     to Preferences -> Account Settings... from the menu and highlight your
>     account in the account list. Go to the Composition & Addressing category in
>     the left pane and tick Compose messages in HTML format in the right pane.
>     Click OK.
>     2. Open a new message window and start to write your message and if at
>     some point of it you need to insert a link just hit Ctrl-L keys and you'll
>     get a "Link Properties" window opened, where you can enter the text to be
>     displayed and its correspondent link location. Afterwards just press
>     OK. Alternatively, you can also highlight existing text in your message and
>     only then use the Ctrl-Lshortcut key. Then you merely have to enter the URL
>     under Link Location.
>
> Best wishes
> David
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slickymaster
Hi David and Leigh,

       David, I believed that I had selected HTML in the preferences 
however when I viewed the
       archive it said something like HTML message excluded - I really 
don't know what is going
       on, Thank you for your input though.
       Regards,
       Geoff.