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September 6, 2022
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Hyperlinks not working properly after copying from one InDesign file to another

  • September 6, 2022
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I've been sent an InDesign layout from a client and I need to copy and paste that layout into my InDesign file. The client has set up hyperlinks throughout the document (mainly just email and website addresses) and although they work perfectly in their document, they become broken when I copy them across.

For example, in their document when you click on hyperlink it links to a URL, however when I click on the hyperlink in my document it links to a 'Shared Destination' which I don't want it to do.

I have no idea why this is happening - is there anything I can do to prevent this? I don't want to go through their layout once I've copied it over and correct all the hyperlinks!

Thank you.

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Community Expert
September 6, 2022

Hi @VickyC112 ,

seems to be an interesting bug; if it is a bug at all. Or just a side effect of some obscure settings or circumstances perhaps. So you see I have no idea why it happens. That said: Could you share two InDesign documents?

One with a sample source text from your client (change the text's contents if contents is a problem), the other one the target document at the stage before the text was copied in.

 

Could be one page each only.

 

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

davidt12412601
Inspiring
September 6, 2022

Keith Gilbert's "Remove shared destinations" script, from https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts, may be able to do what you want. If not, it may be a good starting point.