@LaurieDesAutels

Go to the site that you want a short link for. Use your regular browser commands and links to get there.

Once you are on the site, look at the top of your browser where the long address is being displayed.

Click the mouse on that address link and make sure that the entire address is highlighted.

If necessary, go to the end of the link and holding the left button of your mouse down, run the mouse pointer all the way to the opposite end of the address

Now enter control-C to copy that address.

Alternatively, right click the highlighted address and click the "Copy" option.

Now go to www.tinyurl.com

Right in the center of the screen there is a box that says
"Enter a long URL to make tiny"

Position the mouse pointer in that box and enter control-V to paste your long address in to that box.

Alternatively, right click the mouse and click the "Paste" option

Now click the button to the right that says:
"Make TinyURL"

Vavoom! And the screen is refreshed with the original URL, a shortened URL of 30 or so characters, and a "preview" URL

Write down or copy the tinyURL and enter it or paste it anywhere you would normally put a url. Anytime someone clicks on that new tinyURL, the tinyURL computer will redirect them to the original URL site