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kellies50617532
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January 10, 2017
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Button to open up a phone call

  • January 10, 2017
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I am working on my company's benefit enrollment guide.I'm not sure if InDesign can do what I want it to do though. I have been going through and adding hyperlinks and actions for the eBook we will be exporting this as.

There are a few phone numbers in this document. What I want to happen is when a user clicks on that number while using their smart phone for the action to be for that number to open in the phone's call option. That way they don't have to enter a number and can just click a button. Is it possible to do this with InDesign?

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Correct answer vinny38

Hi

Yes, you can do it using tel: prefix while generating the hyperlink

Regards

Vinny

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vinny38
vinny38Correct answer
Legend
January 10, 2017

Hi

Yes, you can do it using tel: prefix while generating the hyperlink

Regards

Vinny

kellies50617532
Inspiring
January 10, 2017

Hi Vinny,

Is it all one string of characters, no spaces?

vinny38
Legend
January 10, 2017

Hi

Honestly I don't know.

Apple gives an example using dashes (Phone Links )

Here you can find an example with no dashes, no spaces : (Dial a Phone from a PDF Link on Mobile Devices )

Most probably both work, but I guess the best thing to do is testing, ideally with different OS...

regards