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ninab68408551
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June 18, 2025
Question

Ignore hyperlinks linked to another part of the text when copying from Word

  • June 18, 2025
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Hi!

 

When I copy text from a Word document into my InDesign document, I manage to keep the external hyperlinks (such as URLs) and text formats (blod, italic), which I want, but the problem is that it also seems to keep some kind of trace of the hyperlinks that where linked to other part of the word doc (such as clicking on "Part whatever" would take you to the actual Part whatever in the word doc.

 

I do not want those in my InDesign doc, as I'm going to rebuild this (or not) later. Problem is that once the text containing such hyperlinked is copied, not only they obviously don't work anymore, but there's no option to add an hyperlink to it myslef if I want to later.

 

I hope this is making sense to someone, my doc is 150 pages long and I'm in a bit of a rush so can't waste too long on this... Thanks a lot!

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BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 18, 2025

Clean it up in Word first. That is the best advice you're going to get.

 

You should also place, not paste, which would give you more options.