Reply To: A Solution to Finding Bad Placeholders

I love this solution!(In concept – I have been unable to use it).

I’m now using CC2018. Has anything changed?

I have an old file that I update annually for a customer. Every year the new data file from the customer is slightly different. There are about 70 placeholder fields that I must check, one-by-one. When I try Brandon’s solution, checking hyperlinks, I do not see any “illegal fields”. All of the hyperlinks in the list have a red dot (“URL is not available”) but I can navigate to every placeholder by clicking the page number. There are no alerts (triangle + !). After painstakingly clicking every placeholder in the document, I found the only real fix is to delete every hyperlink and start over, clicking every placeholder and newly assigning a field from the new data file.

What am I doing wrong or not getting?