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How-to Guide
Do you have a phone number in your email? Perhaps you want to make it a link, so people with smart phones can just click on it to call you. The instructions below will allow people with smart phones to call you using either their phone service or Skype.
It will also allow people with desktop computers or tablets to call you using Skype.
Inserting a call to link on text:
- Click on Messages from the left navigation bar.
- Select a message and choose Edit from the Actions dropdown.
- Type the phone number into the email (e.g. 123 123).
- Now click the
icon on the toolbar. - Hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard and search for the phone number you just inserted (e.g. 123 123).
- Type the following just before the number:
<a href="tel:123 123"> - Type the following just after the number:
</a> - So altogether, the number part in your code will now look like this:
- Click at the bottom left corner of the source window. You should see that the number now looks like a link in your email.
- Click to save the changes you have made.
Ensure your international recipients can call the number, by adding the country code to the start of your number in the HTML code.
Inserting a call to link on an image:
- Click on Messages from the left navigation bar.
- Select a message and choose Edit from the Actions dropdown.
- Using the
icon on the toolbar, insert the button into your message which you would like to place the call to link on. - Now click the icon on the toolbar.
- Find the image in your code by searching for img (as per step 6 above)
- Type the call to code in front of the image code:
<a href="tel:555-555-5555"><img src="path/to/phone/icon.jpg"></a>
- Click at the bottom left corner of the source window. You should see that the number now looks like a link in your email.
- Click to save the changes you have made.
To test, simply send a message through to your smart phone and click onto the links and these should ask you if you wish to call those numbers once clicked.