Represent hyperlinks with meaningful presentation

[James]

OneNote presents hyperlinks with a URL. Often these links become long, ugly
and convey no meaning. Take for example the link to this submission page,
trimmed:

http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/aspx/postui.aspx?query=Represent+hyperlinks+with+meaningful+text, ....

The URL text would not fix on a single note with a reasonable amount of
space, hence why it's trimmed. Also the URL does not state anything about
what may be found following the link.

Instead a mechanism, perhaps like HTML, should be used to provide a
meaningful presentation for the link.

As an aside the title page "Post your suggestion", from which this
suggestion comes, yeilding a messing to the "OneNote General Questions" is
counter intuitive. There is no question here, only a suggestion.

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[Tim]

This is coming in OneNote 12. See Owen's blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/owen_braun/archive/2005/10/06/477615.aspx

 

[Steve Silverwood]

OneNote presents hyperlinks with a URL. Often these links become long, ugly
and convey no meaning. Take for example the link to this submission page,
trimmed:

http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/aspx/postui.aspx?query=Represent+hyperlinks+with+meaningful+text, ....

The URL text would not fix on a single note with a reasonable amount of
space, hence why it's trimmed. Also the URL does not state anything about
what may be found following the link.

Instead a mechanism, perhaps like HTML, should be used to provide a
meaningful presentation for the link.

As an aside the title page "Post your suggestion", from which this
suggestion comes, yeilding a messing to the "OneNote General Questions" is
counter intuitive. There is no question here, only a suggestion.

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This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...885f-0a0d631d0f86&dg=microsoft.public.onenote

It's cool to know that Office 12 will be addressing this, but in the
meantime you might want to use the TinyURL service. This lets you take
any given URL -- however long -- and create a short URL for it. For
example, I can take a URL like:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829244

and shorten it to:

http://tinyurl.com/7h59j

with a simple mouse click.

Visit http://tinyurl.com and use the "Make Toolbar Button" link to put a
link in your "Links" toolbar. Then you can go anywhere on the Web and
click the "TinyURL this page" button to instantly convert it to a short-
and-sweet URL. It's VERY handy.

Another alternative is to simply use the "Send to OneNote from Internet
Explorer" PowerToy to shoot a snapshot of the whole web page directly
into a OneNote page. See

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011408961033.aspx

(or http://tinyurl.com/b3mwl) ;-) to get the tool.
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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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