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Keep links intact when pasting

Keep links intact when pasting - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

Keep links intact when pasting

- [Instructor] Here's an issue. Let's say that you're looking at a webpage as like (chuckles) let's look at this one, InDesignSecrets, I love that website. And you want to copy some text from a website, but in addition to bringing the text and pasting it into your InDesign document, you also want to include any hyperlinks that's contained inside that text. So say for example, I want to select the second paragraph which has one, two links. So I select the text here, and copy to the clipboard, jump over to InDesign, create a text frame, paste it, what happened? I don't see any links. Is there anything in my hyperlinks panel? Nope, (soft growls) So, that's aggravating. If this happens to you, I want you to check something, and then I'll show you the work around to get your links in. But the first thing you need to do is go to Preferences. I'll just press command or control K, go down to Clipboard Handling, and…

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