Ghost hyperlinks can't be fixed
With placed Word text, I often have 'ghost hyperlinks', meaning I need there's no active hyperlink in the text but I'm not allowed to select that text and add a hyperlink – 'New hyperlink' is greyed out.
Double-clicking the paragraph inspires this message: "all corrupt hyperlinks in the selected text have been removed," but I'm still unable to add a hyperlink. The only fix I've found is to cut the text, paste it in another app, copy and re-paste it into ID as fresh 'uncorrupted' text.
Cutting all relevant paragraphs makes ID crash.
Of course this is a real hassle, so Adobe, please fix this issue.
ID 2024, Mac.
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Aaron A
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One kludge that has worked at least once is to put the offending paragraph in a new frame, export that as snippet, drag it back onto doc pasteboard, copy and replace text. However, this does not work consistently.
Exporting as IDML and reopening does not resolve it.
Adobe, why this crazy bug?! Please at least explain the reason.