putting links into the text

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  sequenceblogger · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 9:49 pm

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  Is it possible to link to an external site from within the text, and is it possible to do this without including the full URL in the visible text (eg by having a “click here” type link which will take the reader to the intended place)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 9:50 pm

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  Please post the complete url for the blog you are referring to starting with http://
  We require this each and every time you post to this forum so we can be sure we are providing the correct answers to questions being posed.

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  sequenceblogger · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 10:02 pm

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  timethief · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 10:13 pm

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  Thank you. In your post, write the words you want to use as the link, for example outside link
  Then select and highlight those two words.
  Click the little image in the editor toolbar toolbar that looks like a chain and a box
  box will pop up. Enter enter the full web address (complete url starting with http:// ) to the site in question and click “insert”.

  This support documentation entry appears to be the pertinent one to show you the #10 link icon in first row in the visual the editor http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/