How to use the Forum hyperlink Edit/Link chain functionality

You are in the act of composing your reply. Let's say you want to direct the customer to the Area-51 R7 Setup and Specifications PDF.

* You enter the following text or any text into the reply box =
The answer to your question can be found in the Area-51 R7 Setup and Specifications PDF.

* You go the the HTML link for the PDF and copy it (https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/alienware-area51-r7_users-guide_en-us.pdf)

* You then highlight the word or words that you want to be hyperlinked,  Area-51 R7 Setup and Specifications PDF

* Look up to the tools bar and click the Insert Edit/Link chain icon


* The "Url" is the copied HTML link, paste the copied HTML link
* The "Text to display" is what you previously highlighted, word or phrase
* The "Title" is blank
* The "Target" should be Open in new page
* Then click Ok to finish the hyperlink process



Now the word or words you chose in the "Text to display" are now an active link that opens in a new tab.

You can see after I did this that the phrase above is now an active link that opens a new browser tab.

That looks much better than just pasting the link like this =

https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/alienware-area51-r7_users-guide_en-us.pdf