I’m having trouble with a long document in InDesign. I suspect it’s because of a large number of text anchors that somehow were introcduced when a copyeditor imported a lengthy series of endnotes in Word. Now the INDD doc is sluggish, crashy and generally hard to handle.
Is there any way to find and replace these anchors? I can’t seem to find the right search string.
Thanks! CWS
OK, I know what is "wrong" with your file...
Your text is linked as ICML - you've mentioned InCopy but I have Links pallet closed and I've ignored initial message about missing links:
I wasn't even able to search for the "endnote" numbers so I started digging and found out that this Story is linked.
After I've UNLINKED it - my script:
app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextDestinations.everyItem().remove();
works perfectly fine on your sample.
Not sure if you can or should - but if you can or as you have this ICML file - you can run this script in InCopy.
But you need to be careful - it will remove ALL hyperlinkTextDestinations... so you might need more "targeted" - something that will check if destiation is dead and only then remove it.
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