Creating hyperlinks one link at a time is boring and time consuming. Fortunately you can automate the process very easily. Consider if you had hundreds of pages in a guidebook, all of which have URLs that need to be converted to hyperlinks.
The results are pretty good. Automagically create hyperlinks from text in InDesign. This is probably a place where a script could convert those generic names to more descriptive ones. For instance, in my page of text, a URL that contains hyphens gets messed up by the automatic convert command.
However, a hyperlink broken by a discretionary hyphen gets converted just fine. My favorite use of these extra link to options is to add an email link. Hyperlinks aren't just for text. You can select an object with the Selection tool and use the Hyperlinks panel to add a hyperlink to the entire object. Want to get really precise with hyperlinks and where they open lightbox, new window, modal dialog within an iOS app, etc? Check out this article on advanced hyperlinking within in5 for more.
Take Aways You can quickly create hyperlinks from text. The New Hyperlink dialog gives you more control, if needed. You can automatically generate hyperlink URLs from your story text. Hyperlinks can also trigger email messages and link to other locations within the document. Hyperlinks can be added to both text and objects. Sandee Cohen Speaker and Author. Jump to customer examples.
Too much to digest all at once? You can get the VIP edition delivered to your inbox. Send me the VIP edition. If the item is a URL destination, InDesign starts or switches to your web browser to display the destination. If the item is a text anchor or page destination, InDesign jumps to that location.
When a Microsoft Word document with hyperlinks is imported into an InDesign document, you may notice a box or border around the hyperlink URLs such as www. To remove the box, in the Hyperlinks panel, double-click the hyperlink. You may also want to delete the imported swatch. While doing so, you can replace it with a different swatch.
See Delete individual swatches. Before you place the Word document in InDesign, you may want to remove the hyperlinks from the URLs in the Word document to avoid inheriting this formatting.
See your Word documentation. When you import the Word document, the InDesign style that has the same name is used by default. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. User Guide Cancel.
Hyperlinks panel overview. Open the Hyperlinks panel. Sort hyperlinks in the Hyperlinks panel. Choose Sort from the Hyperlinks panel menu, and then choose any of the following:. Displays the hyperlinks in the order in which they were added to the document.
By Name. Displays the hyperlinks in alphabetical order. By Type. Displays the hyperlinks in groups of similar type. Display hyperlinks in smaller rows. Choose Small Panel Rows from the Hyperlinks panel menu. Create hyperlinks. Create a hyperlink to a web page URL. Specify an appropriate URL destination:. Click OK. Create a hyperlink to a file. Select the text, frame, or graphic you want to be the source of the hyperlink.
For Path, type the pathname or click the folder button to locate and double-click the filename. Select Shared Hyperlink Destination if you want the file to be stored in the Hyperlinks panel for easy reuse.
Specify the appearance of the hyperlink source, and then click OK. Create a hyperlink to an email message. For Address, type the email address, such as username company. For Subject Line, type the text that appears in the subject line of the email message. Select Shared Hyperlink Destination if you want the email message to be stored in the Hyperlinks panel for easy reuse.
Create a hyperlink to a page. For Document, select the document containing the destination that you want to jump to. For Page, specify the page number you want to jump to. For Zoom Setting, do one of the following to select the view state of the page being jumped to:.
Select Fit View to display the visible portion of the current page as the destination. Select Fit In Window to display the current page in the destination window. Specify appearance options, and then click OK. Create a hyperlink destination. You cannot set up an anchor destination for text on a parent page. Choose New Hyperlink Destination in the Hyperlinks panel menu. Choose Text Anchor in the Type menu. Specify a name for the text anchor, and then click OK. Do any of the following, and then click OK:.
Specify a name for the text anchor. Create a hyperlink to a text anchor. Choose Text Anchor from the Link To menu. From the Text Anchor menu, choose the text anchor destination you created. Specify hyperlink appearance options, and then click OK. Create a hyperlink to any shared destination. Choose a destination from the Name menu. Hyperlink appearance options. Select Visible Rectangle or Invisible Rectangle. Select a color for the visible hyperlink rectangle.
Select Thin, Medium, or Thick to determine the thickness of the hyperlink rectangle. Select Solid or Dashed to determine the appearance of the hyperlink rectangle. Convert URLs to hyperlinks. For Scope, indicate whether your want to convert URLs in the entire document, the current story, or the current selection.
To apply a character style to the hyperlink, select a character style from the Character Style menu. Do any of the following, and then click Done. Click Find to locate the next URL.
Click Convert to convert the current URL to a hyperlink. Manage hyperlinks. Edit hyperlinks. In the Edit Hyperlinks dialog box, make changes to the hyperlink as necessary, and then click OK.
Delete hyperlinks. When you remove a hyperlink, the source text or graphic remains. Select the item or items you want to remove in the Hyperlinks panel, and then click the Delete button at the bottom of the panel.
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