Trouble making URL text links in posts

[booyah]

Hi folks. I am new to the board and I've tried making a link from text in some of my posts, but they don't seem to be working. I checked your FAQs page so I know I'm doing it right. For example, I want to make this text a link (it's just underlined for emphasis), but when I use the URL codes it doesn't work. The actual link shows up as the link, instead of the text.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
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