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In markdown you can make a link clickable using a certain syntax (you have GUI options that automated that or you can follow the syntax).

This is great as it hides the ugliness of long urls behind a user friendly name.

My question is: how can we do this in Google Docs comments? If that's not possible, is there a way to provide a relative link in Google Docs to the header (as opposed to showing the whole link)?

i.e.

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    Comments automatically link URLs if you put them in. Are you asking how to shorten a URL?
    – Jordan Rhea
    Jun 1, 2016 at 20:40
  • Allegedly this feature now exists, per the docs, though I've not been able to get even their demo to work for me. Open a file in Google Docs.
    – Peter
    Aug 9, 2022 at 22:02

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Short answer

Insert a full URL instead of just the fragment, like #heading=h.kue93nkjalic

Explanation

Google Comments automatically convert inserted full URL to links but it doesn't do the same for anchors. Google Comments use the same formatting than Google+ posts.

  • *bold*
  • _italic_
  • -strikethrough-
  • @name or +name to mention an user

There is no formatting option for URLs, so is you would like to avoid long URLs you should use a URL shortener.

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  • I don't care about the URL being long, I care about it not telling me what the link is to. A link shortener doesn't do that, if anything it makes it worse. Are you saying there is no way to create arbitrary text that has a link attached to it?
    – Michael
    Sep 25, 2018 at 1:56

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