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Multiple Hyperlinks Upload

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 10, 2022
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Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if it is at all possible to add mutliple hyperlinks at once to a table in a InDesign file? It is very time consuming to upload them one at a time otherwise. Thanks, Giorgia

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ProductionB830

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I know it has been 3 years since this question was asked, but today, after a few hours, I found the solution to place a long list with several hyperlinks into indesign, just in case people from the future need the answer...

1.- You have to go to InDesign Preferences/Clipboard Handling, and activate 'All Information' button (instead of 'Text Only)
2.- Export the original list to an .rtf format (Rich Text Format) and import or drag the .rtf document into inDesign... (The .rtf document will carry all the hyperlinks)

Mike Witherell

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Hi Production,

Well, actually, step 1 is unnecessary. In step 2, you can File > Place either an RTF or a DOC or a DOCX file. The text and hyperlinks might already be formatted into a table, or it might not be. Just be sure to turn on Show Import Options as you place it. In the secondary dialog box, you can make sure that hyperlinks are included in the importation of the text file. Also, this is only loosely related to the OP question.

Mike Witherell

Joel Cherney

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Well, I can think of a few ways, but I don't know which one would work for you, as I'm not sure what you are doing. For instance, you might be laboriously moving hyperlinks to Web content from MS Word to a table in InDesign by copying and pasting each one individually, when you could be able to simply File -> Place the Word document into InDesign. Or maybe you have numerous places around the document that should all hyperlink to a table in your document, and you're making each hyperlink individually to point to that page, instead of making the table a Shared Destination?

Since I have no idea what you are actually doing, I can't really advise you. Can you describe your goal, and what you've done to try to get there?

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Giorgia25573841tcwfAuthor

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Hi Joel,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I should have been clearer. I am currently working on a promotional flyer that lists over 400 of our products and I would need each of the product codes to be linking to a specific landing page on our Website. I have the full list of products with description and hyperlink in an Excel file as well. Is there any way that I can mass upload them in order? So far I have only been able to hyperlink each product code manually which of course is very time consuming. Thanks again for your help.

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

thanks again. Unfortunately I don't have a MAC. I might try the Excel option you recommended, so just placing the file? thanks

Well, if you have a column in your Excel file where your product codes are already clickable links, then yes, you can just place the Excel file, check the "Import Options" box when selecting your Excel file, pull down the "Table" dropdown in the Formatting section, and then your Excel table will be placed, and all the links will be live.

But, if you have a column in Excel that has the actual URL (www.company.com/someproduct), and you want to automagically turn each product number (FML-2112) into a unique link (www.company.com/FML-2112, but with the display text FML-2112), then a different strategy is called for. It should totally be doable in InDesign with a bit of JS, but I am lazy, and we're already in Excel, right? It's super easy to do in Excel.

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Eugene Tyson

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There's a thread here if that helps you

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/automatically-create-hyperlinks-with-a-script/td-p/10075631

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