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March 22, 2023
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Hyperlinks in clickable text in Adobe Express

  • March 22, 2023
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I need to add clickable hyperlinks to my newsletter in Adobe Express. This newsletter is downloaded to PDF and the links need to work.  How do I do this?  

 

Correct answer David__B

Note: The link feature works when you save to PDF. Image formats don't support embedded hyperlinks.

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New Participant
October 1, 2025

I also need to link WITHIN the document, which is what I understood this question to be about, but I cannot find the answer. I'm not looking to add external links. My goal is to send an email newsletter with a clickable Table of Contents and internal navigation (i.e. Back, Top, etc.). I see that I can link external sites. This is not what I need. Is there any way to accomplish this in Adobe Express? I have been using Canva for two years to create these newsletters and it has this functionality. Our company has decided that is a security risk and gave me Adobe Express instead so this is the tool I have to use. 

One suggestion (repeatedly posted) was to export to Word, add the links, then convert back to PDF. I thought of that too, but it messes up my formatting. Any other thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

 

New Participant
February 26, 2025

In a LinkedIn post, in AE, the @mention feature does not work, neither does highlighting the text and clicking on 'Link Options' as that is not an option either.  So the only way that I can tell to do this is to schedule the post and then manually go into LinkedIn and use the @mention feature there.  Definitely not ideal.

New Participant
November 15, 2024

I just want to add a link to another page in the PDF, this should be simple for Table of Contents...

 

New Participant
October 24, 2024

So... you can make a web page, but not a website? Unlesss it ionly has one page. I spent HOURS designing six pages that were supposed to be on one site, based on the fact that they say you can use it to develop webpages. Guess I'm missing something. And I have a 48 hour deaadline. 

Back to the drawing board.

New Participant
September 5, 2024

Hi, a great update or upgrade to the linking ability, can your developers include a code snippet/code download for the file to be recreated for a web environment?

Inspiring
September 5, 2024

I donwloaded my gfx as pdf just fine but, Is there anyway to change the PDF cover? I would like to show my gfx instead of the PDF logo. 

New Participant
July 31, 2024

Hi, after reading all the answers and posts I've found a solution for my presentation to add a hyperlink to a textfield (without that the link-text is visible etc.) because any other "solution" didn't work für my presentation.

 

1. Dowload the file as PDF

2. Convert it to a Word-Document

3. Add the Hyperlink(s) to the text fields (change text color, underline if you want so)

4. Convert it back to PDF

5. You've got hyperlinks

 

Complicated? Of course, yes, and not what I expect from Adobe and with Adobe Express with all its Hyper hyper AI etc., but at least it has been working to add a hyperlink to a text field 🙂

New Participant
August 7, 2024

simple question: when i schedule an IG story post with an embedded link from express the link doesn't work. is adding a link not possible?

happie_97
Inspiring
March 20, 2024

Good news! You can now add hyperlinks to Adobe Express on the desktop. It is a brand-new feature.

To add a hyperlink…

  1. Select your text
  2. Right click
  3. Select Link Options
  4. Add the link
David__B
Adobe Employee
David__BCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
March 21, 2024

Note: The link feature works when you save to PDF. Image formats don't support embedded hyperlinks.

New Participant
May 2, 2024

Sigh, I've been trying to get my hyperlink text to work on an Adobe Express Facebook post that I created with an Express  social media template.  Can I just have the entire 'image/post' be a link?

New Participant
February 23, 2024

How in the world can you have all these fancy options and AI but no ability to add links to text? This really puts a dent in using or recommending to our 1,200 faculty and 50K students. It renders a potentially great teaching and learning tool useless. 

New Participant
February 28, 2024

I agree this is absurd. I have spent hours trying to make the most simple links, tabs, bookmarks, whatever to a text table of contents on a 35 page combined into a single pdf. No way in Express (which seems appalling) or in Acrobat. This link says it's possible, the thread above says no. I can't find Express the features recommended in the top of this thread and the "Links" choice is disappeared from the Edit menu in Acrobat. 

New Participant
January 12, 2024

Use QR codes.

 

New Participant
January 16, 2024
Yes, QR codes are good for some applications. I'm doing a newsletter and need clickable links in the text. I posted the request after being forced to use Microsoft Publisher for my newsletter despite paying for a subscription to Adobe. It was disappointing not to be able to use it for my newsletter because links aren't an option.


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New Participant
January 16, 2024

I get that, I do a newsletter every month using MailChimp.  What I usually end up doing is following my graphics with buttons for the relevent links.  It's not completely ideal, but it works for most things.