Comments on: Cleaning Up Hyperlinks from Word Text

By: John Livingston

John Livingston — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:00:27 +0000

In my case, I WANT InDesign to import hyperlinks from Microsoft Word documents so that I don’t have to go back and re-create them after making a PDF out of the InDesign file. I just want to get rid of the rectangular box.
Here is what I do now:
Just before exporting or distilling indd file to PDF:
1. I choose Edit Hyperlinks (CTRL-K)
2. I then highlight all hyperlinks in the InDesign file
3. From the Hyperlinks drop down menu, I choose Hyperlink Options…
4. In Appeance, under type, I choose Invisible Rectangle.

This is incredibly slow and clunky, so I want InDesign to automatically make any hperlink, imported or added manually, an Invisitble Rectangle.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:11:45 +0000

To remove the hyperlink box on the text(cs4)

go to window-interactive-hyperlink
hold shift key and select all hyperlinks
go to option on the corner of the box
select hyperlink options
in the visible box select invisible.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:43:56 +0000

@elizabeth: Are the black boxes hyperlinks that can be deleted in the Hyperlinks panel? Or just strokes around the graphic frames that you can remove by setting the stroke to None? Or (I have seen this) black strokes around the image themselves — that is, they’re part of the picture.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:37:17 +0000

I have black boxes around every image i inserted into Indesign. They are not a part of my design aesthetic and I was wondering how I could remove them?

By: Nadya Miloserdova

Nadya Miloserdova — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:04:25 +0000

Anne-Marie, about Ctrl+6 KBSC for Word.
If you know your shortcut and want to determine which command it belongs to, do the following:
Menu Tools > Customize > Keyboard. Select any command (for example FilePrint) and try to assign a new keyboard shortcut to it (here ctrl+6). Word will tell you, that it is already assigned to UnlinkFields.

And here comes my own quetion about hyperlinks.
Is there any way to set the default way in InDesign for the formatting of hyperlinks? I don’t want to select the existing hyperlink(s) and change its options; I’d like to define the options before the creation of hyperlinks. Or the visible rectangle is inevitable?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:10:57 +0000

Yay! It worked to get rid of those darn little boxes! I’ve been struggling with figuring out how to get rid of those boxes for about 30 minutes. Mine weren’t grey though, they were just a black box around white background.

Thanks!!

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By: Mihai M.

Mihai M. — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:13:32 +0000

In theory, you can create a character style named “Hyperlink” and choose whatever formatting you want for it. When you place a Word doc containing hyperlinks, those will be automatically assigned to the newly created “Hyperlink” Indesign character style.
That’s what I did, because I want the text to look exactly the same as any regular text, BUT I don’t want to have hyphenated websites, like http://www.ya-hoo.com at the end of my lines. So I checked “No break” attribute on my “Hyperlink” character style.

Now all sounds good, BUT as I said in the beggining, it all works only in theory (and InDeisgn CS2), not in InDesign CS4. For some reason, when I place the text, the character style doesn’t apply to the text.

If anybody has ideas why, please drop me a line or comment.

Thanks

By: Maria N

Maria N — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:14:48 +0000

This may be old news for ID CS3 users, but I just discovered that in the View menu, you can select Hide Hyperlinks if you want to get rid of the gray boxes. This is much easier than before!
The link to the url is retained when exported to PDF (provided the text is placed, not copied).

By: Preston

Preston — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:50:14 +0000

What if I want to *add* formatting to hyperlinked text? I’m starting the process of adding hyperlinks to a long document and I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to automatically apply a hyperlink character style to all hyperlinks *without* manually selecting the text and applying the style. It seems like there should be a menu option in the hyperlinks panel for that kind of thing. Ideas?