I think I solved the problem. In my INDD file for each chapter, in this case each chapter is another year, at the beginning of the chapter I place a full page image and then on the next page is the text that starts the first article. That text has a title and the title has a style that adds it to the TOC of the INDD file. What I had done was place my curser in front of the title and attached a full page graphic inline so since it was inside the TOC style, it added the graphic to the TOC (only visible in the actual epub in the TOC panel) as a blank line. You could still click the line and it would take you to the full page graphic.

To remedy this, I first deleted the image form it’s current spot which left me with a blank page. I put my curser in front of the title that now had a blank page in front of it and clicked Delete which moved that page of text back one page (getting rid of the blank page.

Next I inserted my curser at the end of the previous text thread and attached the image again, scaled it and positioned it off page in the art board area and then exported. The blank is now gone and the file validates for that instance of it.

I think I figure out a workaround or maybe it’s the right thing to do. I told the paragraph style that was controlling the copyright page text to apply 200px of margin at the top. That pushed it down and the TOC to the next page.

Hi Anne Marie,

I was following your tutorial on Lynda. So what I did was:

1. The full page image is on a right page and the text it needs to be in front of is on the backside of that page (left side). I know sides are irrelevant in EPUB but I want you to get the picture. The text frame is smaller than the photo since it has margins around it.

2. I selected the photo and SHIFT-CLICK-DRAGGED the blue anchor to the space before the first word of the next page and it disappeared and added lots of empty pages.

I do have the first word of this page set to a paragraph style that puts it to the top of a page. Could it be that the same attributes are being applied to the photo I’m linking?

The other thing I don’t understand is I have 3 full page photos at the front of my doc that are working fine and I can’t remember what I did to make them behave. Is there a way I can see if they are anchored or whatever?

Yea, the spell check was taking forever with 460 pages, that’s why I asked about the GREP. Guess I’ll just have to bite the bullet.

My question with the www is why do they automatically assume you wouldn’t want that? Seems like selling candles with no wicks to me.

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?

Hi Justin, thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Let me articulate this better for you. I originally imported a Word doc that has hyper links in it. I changed the Character style it imported with it for those hyperlinks to a new name called Hyperlinks so it was easier to spot. I adjusted it to my liking. I’m not sure if that was important for you but I want you to have the full picture.

The text that has hyperlinks could look like this: visit my website for more information <—that text would be linked or —> mywebsite.com <—that would be linked. I don’t have any long whacky URLs as text being linked, they all look like a string of words, some times just a few and on occasion, a whole sentence.

To answer your Hyperlink Palette question, yes, when the Word doc imported, all the URLs went into that palette.

WHAT I’VE TRIED
1. First I tried enabling the “no break” checkbox in the Body paragraph style but that made all my text disappear and go into overset. UNDO.

2. Then I did the same thing on the Hyperlink character style but it did the same thing but only sent most of the text into overset. Seems on page 147 is where it started this. UNDO.

3. The last thing I’ve been doing is going page-by-page and selecting the hyphenated linked text and unchecking the Hyphenate checkbox that is on the properties bar at the top of my workspace. My friend told me to STOP THE MADNESS!

4. Now I’m here :-)

My friend was saying, just like you, that the character style that I’ve called Hyperlink should be where this is controlled but it doesn’t look like that is working. How can I troubleshoot this?

BTW: the document is 450 pages.