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• • February 6, 2012 at 6:33 am #61599
    hjertaker

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    Hi,

    I have a text on each page of my document (with many pages) that says “Click here to go to homepage”, and I want that to have a hyperlink to https://www.homepage.com. 

    I try to make a shared destination, and to connect all instances of the sentence to the same hyperlink.But the link will only work and apply to the first sentence.

    Have I misunderstod the purpose of a shared destination? I it not possible to connect many words to the same address/link?

    Btw, I use InDesign CS 5.0 for Mac.

  • February 27, 2012 at 5:40 am #61700
    hjertaker

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    No one?

  • February 27, 2012 at 7:54 am #61702
    RoManuV

    Member

    Hi there,

    Using shared destinations is quite straightforward, I don't understand where your problem resides, but here is how I did it (and it works):

    I created a 3 pages test document and a character style called “Hyperlink” (optional). On the first page I inserted a text box with the text “Click here”, selected the word “here” and from the “Type” menu I chose “Hyperlink & Cross-References”/ “New hyperlink”. In the dialog box I set:

    • Link to: URL
    • Destination: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/in…..1FDDE4EB85
    • Shared Hyperlink Destination: checked
    • Style: Hyperlink & checked (optional)

    On the second page I inserted a text box, containing the text “Click here”, selected the word “here” and from the “Type” menu I chose “Hyperlink & Cross-References”/ “New hyperlink”. In the dialog box I set:

    • Link to: Shared destination
    • Destination: I selected my shared destination created above
    • Style: Hyperlink & checked (optional)

    Same thing for page 3.

    I saved the document and exported it to PDF, making sure that “Include Hyperlinks” is checked on the export dialog box.

    Voilà!

    Hope that helps.

  • September 28, 2020 at 7:25 am #127180
    James Dempsey

    Participant

    Thank you, RoManuV, for providing the instructions for using “Shared Destination” in the hyperlinks panel. I’ve never been able to figure out how to use this feature, nor could I find any clear instructions on using it anywhere. It’s not as “straightforward” as you may believe.
    What I think would be a much better scenario is if once a URL destination is created and listed in the Hyperlinks Panel, the user should be able to select a word or words in the document and drag the Hyperlink destination from the panel and drop it on the selected word/words. THAT would be really handy!
    [yes, I know this is a very old thread, but I finally had cause to search for the topic and this is what came up in Google]

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