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SharePoint Online URL Shortener
SharePoint does not have a native URL shortener. That doesn't mean you couldn't use a third-party service like bit.ly to achieve shortening, though.
As for your need to have links--where are you trying to make these links? If you're relying on the Hyperlink/Picture field type in a List, your issue is perfectly understandable, as there is a character limit there, but I've found that using a Multiple Lines of Text field to be a good workaround--if you have rich text turned on, hyperlinks made there don't have that character restriction, or at least it's not so high that SharePoint's own URLs don't fit. Also, if storing links in a Page with hyperlinks is acceptable to you, I've found the character limit is similar to what is experienced with Multiple Lines of Text.
Hello Vanessa Martin, Matt Coats and sunnyschindler in my case I have found a solution without using multi-line columns, that is, using hyperlink columns, maybe it can be useful to others. The first thing I do is select the document and click "Share" then, in the section where the people with whom you want to share are indicated, I click on "edit" (pencil) and in "Link configuration" I select "All employees of the company that have the link". "Share" links are less than 255 characters. Indicate that in my case the hyperlinks are always to PDF documents that can only be viewed and not edited, so each one adapts it to their needs by blocking editing, downloading, etc.
I hope it helps you 🙂