How Do I Replace A Link With Text?

[Michael]

Of all the things to remember for a forum, this is the one I can never remember!  I don't know why, but thankfully, I know how to find the answer. 

I didn't know you could do this in a forum until I saw a post from Kiai, THANK YOU KIAI!!    Every time I forget how to do it, I always go find Kiai's post so I can see it again.  To see how someone did something, simply click on QUOTE, as if you were going to answer the post, and you will see all the formatting instructions they used.  I've borrowed Kiai's post so you can see it here in the white bar:

Click me--->Called Jessica.<---Click me

Let's look at how she did that.  The link she is sharing is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk.  But she made is appear as Called Jessica.  To do so, she clicked on the globe icon for inserting a hyperlink.  I'm going to change the brackets so you can see what I'm talking about.  This way it won't execute as an instruction.  Click the globe to insert a hyperlink and you get:

{url}  {/url}

Now, we are going to change that to the following:  {url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk}Called Jessica {/url}

Notice we removed the first right bracket and replaced it with an = sign.  We moved the right bracket to the end of the URL, just before the text.  Now enter the text just as you want it to appear.  Make sure you end the insert hyperlink with the brackets and slash.  With the correct brackets, this {url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk}Called Jessica {/url}, turns into this Called Jessica

Lets do one more.  Let's use the Olympics as an example.  To see the Olympic schedule go to http://www.nbcolympics.com/. 
Let's change that.                                                                 Click here to see the Olympic Schedule.