hyperlinks

I hope I can explain myself clearly here! When I refer to another webpage in a thread, I cut and paste the http://www. address straight into the post. Some people are clever and manage to hide the full webpage link into a single word. So, how do you do that please? Thanks.

Not sure if anyone will be able to recognise this fault or offer advice - but here goes. If I receive an outlook message,say from this forum with a topic reply hyperlink - if I 'click' on the link, nothing happens and task manager reveals that Outlook is 'not responding' and I have to close...