I am trying to put a url in a link by dragging and dropping it in the 'Link' area of toolbar. IE 11 Instructions say "Click th

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I am trying to put a url in a link by dragging and dropping it in the 'Link' area of toolbar. IE 11 Instructions say "Click the Tools button, point to Toolbars, and then click the toolbar you want to show or hide" I do this by clicking 'Tools' in IE 11 and there is NO 'Toolbars' to point to.
What is it talking about and why does this 'Click X when there is no X to click' happen so often in Win environments (apart from it being rubbish anyway)
 
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I have read the help and found 'Toolbars' but that just gives me the same option as Tools with an extra one. Nowhere can I see where I can add a link as the site I trying to put as an immediate link form whatever I am in, e.g. a Word document. What I want to do is have the feature 'shorten URL' visible so when I come across a huge URL in one of my docs I can click on the 'shorten URL' link, give my huge URL a short name and use that as my link. I've tried adding it via a menu URLname and actual URL of 'shorten URL' site added to boxes but it won't have it.
Does that make sense? I've tried just clicking and dragging as the shorten URL site says but it doesn't land anywhere - just vanishes into the ether.
 
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Thanks for trying. For anyone else looking, issue is:
I am using Win7/IE 11. I ham looking at an email from a site who offer a 'shorten a URL' solution. In the email is a link to the app and the email says 'click and drag this to your link area (or similar) so that I can invoke the 'shorten' function when I am in, e.g., Word and wish to shorten a large URL to name , e.g. 'ShortURL' in the Word document. This makes t easy for a reader of hardcopy to type the URL in which would be almost impossible to do correctly with a 4 line URL. It i a simple function I require but cannot manage it. Thanks.
 
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