Paste link into email

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1

Hi!

This is something that has been bugging me a long time. I quite often send people a link to for instance a dropbox folder in mail on my Mac. Is there a way to turn it into a clickable link with the link adress as a text in one step?

Now I have to

  1. Copy the text
  2. Paste it in
  3. Select the text
  4. Right-click on the text
  5. Select make link
  6. Paste the link into the link-text box

I would like to

  1. Copy the text
  2. Use a keyboard shortcut to paste it in with the link-address as the clickable link-text

Does that make sense? It would be great if I wouldn’t have to use Keyboard Maestro either as I was having some slow-down issues with that program.

2

I usually find that after I paste the link and press space or return then the link is automatically recognised. Does that definitely not happen for you?

3

No, not in Mail on the Mac. It does in any iOS mail-app I use.

Mail Version 9.3 (3124)
OS 10.11.6

Maybe there are some data detectors I need to turn on?

4

CMND + K will bring up the field to insert the link. This will save some time…

5

Are you sending in plain text?

6

And suddenly after years of being frustrated with this it suddenly works! I think I might be going slightly crazy. I did it just before I posted the question as well and it didn’t work but now it does. The magic of MPU maybe :smile:

I have no idea what has changed but thanks for answering, everyone!

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