Reply To: Hyperlinks On One Line

Hi Justin,

For the sake of others reading this, I want them to know that THIS DID WORK. One addition though, on Step 5, to get to that dialog box, they need to go to Type/Hyperlinks & Cross-References/Convert URLs to Hyperlinks…

I don’t know if this matters but while it did convert all URLs to hyperlinks, it converted each how ever they were written so if it did not have an “https://www” in front of the domain, it did not add it. That could be a problem for URLs that don’t bounce over to the www version of the website. But that’s not the problem I’m having.

In my case:

1. When I deleted all of the hyperlinks in the hyper link palette, it deleted all the hyper links that were also on text strings that were not URLs. For example, if I had the text “see more on my website” and I hyper-linked it to https://www.mywebsite.com, the URL was thrown out and the text never relinked (I suppose I would have to link it by hand). Lucky for me I took your advice and saved a backup version to go back to.

2. To make matters even more complicated, the author applied goo.gl URL shorten so he could track the analytics of each link. That means that even if the text says http://www.mywebiste.com the shortened version attached to it says something else but goes to the same page. Just for your curiosity this “analytic” info can be found on this page under Learn More, 3rd bullet down: https://goo.gl/GFGHY

Anyway, is there any help for this without having to dig up Albert Einstein?