Reply To: What is this hidden character?

Wow! When I posted on 22nd May I thought this thread was done. Turn you back for five minutes and so many more posts appear!

Thank you for your offer, Chris. Since the document included some sensitive material, I had planned to replace the non-affected text with lorem ipsum before exporting an IDML file to send you but, in view of the posts by BoazE and David, that seems a little irrelevant now. If you would still like an IDML file, let me know and I will still do it.

Yes, BoazE and David, you do seem to have cracked it, though I am intrigued by your inability to expand the pictures in Safari, David. That is my browser of choice and they expand fine for me.

But one little mystery remains: how on earth did the hyperlink destinations get in there in the first place?

The Word files that have been placed in my InDesign document are all straight-forward text files with no hyperlinks and no hyperlink destinations in them. They have paragraph styles but very few of them, mostly just “Body” and “Reference”. The hyperlink destinations have only ever appeared (in InDesign) at the beginning of the “Reference” paragraph at the end of each Word file import and perhaps it is of significance that each of these “Reference” paragraphs is aligned to the right and begins with an em-dash?

I just tried importing one of the offending Word files into another InDesign document and the hyperlink destinations appeared as before. Yet there is nothing in the Word file to indicate that it is anything other than formatted text. Weird!

As I said before, this is not a PROBLEM for me as it hasn’t caused any production difficulties. It just an intriguing mystery.