Need to insert hundreds of hyperlinks

[john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com]

Thanks, guys...

Looks like, without coding, I'm not going to be trimming alot off the
process and being that I'll probably finish by Wed., any time savings from
automating it will be eaten up by the time to implement the solution. If
the answers did anything, it showed I was at least doing it the right
way...not bad after being away from FM for about 5 years and 4 versions.

BTW...to the poster who said I didn't have to re-identify it as a
hypwerlink, I do...my average link is a URL along with a document to be
openned from the URL and Acrobat doesn't recognize the file part, just the
web URL address to the SharePoint folder,, so it goes to the folder but
won't launch the file. When I include the whole path, works fine.

Now, my next task, after I populate the links, is to index this book, now
well over 1500 pages. <sigh>

Thanks, guys




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  |Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>                                                                                                  |
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  |John X Posada/HBUS/HSBC at HSBC02, framers at lists.frameusers.com                                                                             |
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  |03/11/2013 05:32 PM                                                                                                                      |
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  |robert.lauriston at gmail.com                                                                                                               |
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It's more efficient to apply the character format before inserting the
hyperlink, since it stays highlighted.

I'm sure it's possible to automate that with ExtendScript or
FrameScript, or maybe with a free Windows keystroke macro recorder
utility.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM,  <john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com> wrote:
> Over the next few days, I'll be needing to insert hundreds of hyperlinks.
>
> Right now, it is a three step process.
>
>    Copy and paste the hyperlink.
>
>    Highlight it, then select Special > Hypertext > Command Go To URL,
paste
>    hyperlink all over again.
>
>    Highlight hyperlink again and apply defined Character format to make
it
>    underlined and blue.
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