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404 Use InDesign Find and Replace for hyperlinks

404 Use InDesign Find and Replace for hyperlinks - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

404 Use InDesign Find and Replace for hyperlinks

- [Instructor] This is some text from a catalog and you can see that there's a product name and also a SKU, you know, like an ID number. And these numbers relate directly to URLs on a website. So I want to hyperlinks for each one. Now if you had to do this, you probably wish you were working by the hour, right? Because this is going to take a long time and be really tedious. But what if there were a way to do it super quickly? What if I had a script to do it for me? Well that was the question that came up at the InDesign conference last year and Kris Coppieters answered by writing just such a script. Now he's giving this powerful script away for free so I want to share it with you. I'm going to show it in action first and then I'll explain how it works. First I need to open the Scripts panel by going to the Window menu, going down to Utilities and then choosing Scripts. I've already installed this script. So if I look inside the User folder, I can see it here. It's called GryperLink…

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