Is this happening in the same document or comparing a PDF created prior to the update vs a PDF created after the update? Did you check your SaveAs PDF options to verify the setting that makes the hyperlinks? Andrew, Yes, this is happening in the same document that I have been adding working hyperlinks before. The old links still work; none of the new ones go anywhere; they are blue, underlined, and work within the Word for MAC document, but when I Save to PDF, (Best for Internet Publishing) only the older links work. The cursor does not change when I mouseover the new links; it changes over the old. Thank you for your interest. Its a bit of a longshot but the only thing I can suggest is to check the hyperlink base which should be a field in the document properties.
Maybe you could post a sample Word document with a good link and a dud link so we can have a look on a windows machine to see if we get the same result. Thank you for taking the time to help me with this. I am not seeing a way to check hyperlink base properties.
There is a simple way to remove all hyperlinks from word file. Remove all hyperlinks form word file at once: Select all text by pressing Ctrl+A and then press Ctrl+Shift+F9 all hyperlinks will be removed at once.
I am using the same method of 'Inserting' a 'Hyperlink' and choosing the heading to go to. I appreciate your help.
Like many InDesign users, Terry V. Is not fond of Word’s hyperlinked text. He writes: To me it is a major annoyance that when I import a Word file, all the hyperlinks are in boxes with blue underlined text. Word automatically makes hyperlinks clickable and gives these this hideous layout to make sure your eye doesn’t miss this ugliness, hoping that I click on it so the color changes to another ugly color. I usually delete the character style ‘Hyperlink’ without keeping the formatting. But then there still is a box around it. Even when I cut the text and paste it without formatting, the box remains visible.
So my questions: – What is that annoying box? – How do I get rid of it (or bring it on in the totally theoretical case I might want to use it)? – How do I avoid those hyperlinks from being imported and messing up both my perfectly fine layout and my happiness being an InDesign user? The problem is that one of Microsoft Word’s default behaviors is to automatically turn anything it recognizes as a web site or e-mail address into a hyperlink as soon as the user types it. You can click that link in Word and it will bring you to the web site or create a pre-addressed e-mail message.
When you bring the text into InDesign by pasting without the formatting, the “hyperlinkness” of the text still comes through — the hidden HTML code that Word added. The gray boxes that you see are the default appearance for any hyperlinks in InDesign, so that when the file is exported to PDF, it’s easy for the user to find the linked text.
Stop them in Word It’s a pain to “unlink” these in Word, even if the user could figure out how. So the best bet is to ask your Word users to turn off the default behavior, if not for all their documents, then at least for the articles they’re preparing for your layout. It’s simple: Go to Word’s Tools menu and open the AutoCorrect dialog box. Click on the AutoFormat as You Type panel and in the Replace As You Type section, turn off the checkbox next to “Internet paths with hyperlinks.” This doesn’t clear out any links it’s already created in the current document, but does prevent it from adding links to text that’s typed from then on.
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Remove them in InDesign The only way you’ll end up with Word’s hyperlinked text in your InDesign document is if you retain Word formatting when you place the file. If you choose Remove Styles and Formatting in the Import Options dialog box before you place it, you won’t get the hyperlinks – no formatting, no hidden code. (So this is a better option than pasting without formatting, as the user was doing above.) However, if you turn on the option to Retain Local Formatting (usually a good idea to retain specific bold and italic formatting), no code is retained but the links will still appear in that lovely RGB blue color and underlined.
Not a big deal, it’s just a local override. Hold down the Option/Alt key when you apply your Paragraph Style to get rid of it. You will see both the boxes and the blue/underlined formatting if you place the Word file with formatting intact.
Even in this case, it’s fairly simple to clean them up:. In your Character Styles palette, delete the one called Hyperlink (it came with the Word file) and at the prompt, replace it with None and turn off the Preserve Formatting checkbox. That clears out the blue color and underlines from the affected text. Go to Window Interactive Hyperlinks and shift-click all of the entries that appear in the palette. (If you actually have some hyperlinks you created in InDesign that you want to keep, select only the ones that came with Word — they’re called Hyperlink, Hyperlink 2, Hyperlink 3, and so on.) Then click the trashcan icon at the bottom of the palette to delete the Word hyperlinks. The gray boxes disappear, but the text remains. Of course, if you want to keep the links (for your PDF) but don’t want the gray boxes or blue text, you could change their appearance.
Edit the Hyperlink Character Style to your taste, or delete it all together as explained above. Select all the entries for the imported Word hyperlinks in the Hyperlinks palette, then choose Hyperlink Options from the palette menu and change their Appearance to Invisible Rectangle. Or, select all hyperlinks in the palette, click “Hyperlink Options” from the fly-out menu, and set the appearance to “invisible rectangle” to keep the links without the box in PDF format.
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That’s what we do in MDJ. Our true Word-ID annoyance is that after six years, InDesign still botches importing Word hyperlinks that have #anchors in them.
It gives the text the “Hyperlink” character style, but it does not actually create a hyperlink with the URL, so you get blue text (or whatever your style mandates) with nothing behind it. Even Mac VB in Office 2004 can get to these links, so it’s baffling why InDesign can’t after all this time. In theory, you can create a character style named “Hyperlink” and choose whatever formatting you want for it. When you place a Word doc containing hyperlinks, those will be automatically assigned to the newly created “Hyperlink” Indesign character style. That’s what I did, because I want the text to look exactly the same as any regular text, BUT I don’t want to have hyphenated websites, like at the end of my lines.
So I checked “No break” attribute on my “Hyperlink” character style. Now all sounds good, BUT as I said in the beggining, it all works only in theory (and InDeisgn CS2), not in InDesign CS4.
For some reason, when I place the text, the character style doesn’t apply to the text. If anybody has ideas why, please drop me a line or comment.
Anne-Marie, about Ctrl+6 KBSC for Word. If you know your shortcut and want to determine which command it belongs to, do the following: Menu Tools Customize Keyboard.
Select any command (for example FilePrint) and try to assign a new keyboard shortcut to it (here ctrl+6). Word will tell you, that it is already assigned to UnlinkFields.
And here comes my own quetion about hyperlinks. Is there any way to set the default way in InDesign for the formatting of hyperlinks? I don’t want to select the existing hyperlink(s) and change its options; I’d like to define the options before the creation of hyperlinks. Or the visible rectangle is inevitable? In my case, I WANT InDesign to import hyperlinks from Microsoft Word documents so that I don’t have to go back and re-create them after making a PDF out of the InDesign file.
I just want to get rid of the rectangular box. Here is what I do now: Just before exporting or distilling indd file to PDF: 1. I choose Edit Hyperlinks (CTRL-K) 2. I then highlight all hyperlinks in the InDesign file 3. From the Hyperlinks drop down menu, I choose Hyperlink Options 4. In Appeance, under type, I choose Invisible Rectangle.
This is incredibly slow and clunky, so I want InDesign to automatically make any hperlink, imported or added manually, an Invisitble Rectangle.