Comments on: Keyboard Shortcut to add hyperlinks in Mail.app

By: JS Franco

JS Franco — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:05:55 +0000

In answer to those having trouble under Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.x, the Mail.app menu layout and naming is slightly different in the older version. In place of typing “Add…” in the System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts box’s “Menu Title” field, type exactly “Add Hyperlink…” instead.

You then just need to restart your Mail.app for the change to take effect. Worked for me!

By: Terje Christianen

Terje Christianen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:43:55 +0000

“Keyboard Shortcut to add hyperlinks in Mail.app”

As Katherine Lent commented;

Tried it out in Tiger Mail, did not work.

The apple-key + K, returned an Q if I wanted to erase every mail in my account.
The menu-item in question did not appear in my GUI.

I´m on OS X 10.4.11 and Mail Versjon 2.1.2 (753/753.1).

So hawkwings; an app-test prior to promoting something smart, will be nice.
You may have done so, but I could not find any version-references regarding this tweak, at the site.

Otherwise; your site is OK. -but looking for something in an more easy manner, will improve your sites standing.
I don´t know if this site is controlled by a NGO or others.

Thanks for your very good work and initiative.

Best regards, Terje Christiansen, Oslo, Norway.

By: Tangerineomine

Tangerineomine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:35:16 +0000

Wow, thank you so much. I have just recently started using Mail exclusively (when gmail added imap support) and have been sitting here pulling my hair out. No link support except for through a dropdon submenu? Absolutely absurd. I thought for sure that there was an “appearance” or “view options” preference I must have missed, but no. Inexcusable! Sure, some people may not find it necessary to create nice links, but in 2008 an oversight like this is just silly. Man, I love Apple, but when they miss something, they REALLY miss.

Again, Thank You!

By: Russel

Russel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:59:20 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. I had tried this a long time ago but I did not know the shortcut for elipses. There are some other apps that have elipses in their titles so I could not access them.

I use xgestures to control many menu items and some of them have ellipses so I could no accesses them as ” . . . does not equal …”

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:27:44 +0000

@Katherine: Tiger seems so long ago. My recollection is that this worked fine in Tiger though.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:26:32 +0000

Lee, I hope I didn’t offend. I just wondered if it was some ironic remark about Mail.app’s ability to display the hyperlink in a tooltip, thus rendering some of the advantages of “plain text” hyperlinks void. Or something.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:00:36 +0000

Yes, it was a serious question, but I’ll be sure never to ask one again. Thanks.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:52:00 +0000

My previous comment, the “??” should be Command-? (squiggly didn’t come through) to bring up the help menu.

Also, you can’t type “bcc colon” in the comments – as a website programmer I know why (spambots suck!), but it can be frustrating when you just get a generic message saying “Failure: some condition somewhere returned false”.

By: Katherine Lent

Katherine Lent — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:57:46 +0000

Is that for Mail in Leopard only? I couldn’t get it to work in Tiger.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:34:05 +0000

@Lee: Is this a serious question?

It’s the difference between A Nifty Web Site and http://www.hawkwings.net/