Indesign – Changing display text for hyperlink is removing / deleting the hyperlink.

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Changing display text for hyperlink is removing / deleting the hyperlink.

Manually typed in footnotes. I highlighted the text “10” > right clicked > New Hyperlink > Put in URL (for this example dribbble.com). Went back into the doc realized “10” needed to be “20” highlighted my hyperlink and typed in “20” > Hyperlink is suddenly gone. And it’s happening with every hyperlink I’ve changed the display text on. I’ve never had this issue before.

I’ve also done full resets of everything and I am running the latest update. Screenshots in order of process. help.

leo.r · Answer

Yes, I can reproduce it in both InDesign 2026 and 2025 (if you change the entire display text of a hyperlink, the hyperlink disappears).

Frankly, I don’t know if it’s a bug or if there’s a reason for this behavior.

You can avoid it by doing the following workaround:

Say you want to change “10” to “20”:

-Type “20” in the middle of “10”: 1200

-Delete the last zero, delete the first 1.

Hyperlink will be preserved.

It’s possible there are other ways to deal with it that I’m not aware of.

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