InDesign 2020 Hyperlinks Disappeared?

Question

I have a document tht is 162 pages of part numbers and pricing that goes to print then I create an interactive pdf and convert the part numbers to hyperlinks in InDesign. I open the previous document and import the Hyperlink Character Style from the old document and then update any new hyperlinks. I did some reformatting of tabbed text to tables however, when I opened my document this time, nothing, when selecting a hyperlink it takes upwards of 1-2 minutes just to select! I have over 10,000 part numbers to hyperlink before the end of the year! I am in desperate need of help, either fixing or recreating quickly.

Thanks so very much!

tacoeater · Answer

This is hard to recreate. I did get a weird error though with hyperlink text becoming overset when converting to tables. I'm wondering if this might of happened to you. Do you have preflight on at the moment. If so try turning this off and it might fix the selection lag.

Other possible fixes would be to break your document up into mulit documents to reduce the lag.

Ultimate fix would be to create a script to automatically make your hyperlinks.

I found this link to a topic that had something close to what you want.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/automatically-create-hyperlinks-with-a-script/td-p/10075631?page=1

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