Link From Document to Document On Your Mac

[@marlon_guan]

I learned so many things today and I’ve been a Mac user for 10 years. And this video came in handy for a recent project that I’ve been doing. Thank you Gary your dedication to share the knowledge is Much appreciated

[@binneas1]

Wow Gary even more masterful than usual!

[@AnilAtluriWord]

Thank you Gary for this amazing tutorial. It's nice to know you worked hard to show us how but then it's quite a roundabout way!

[@60beats44]

Thank you Gary. One thing I really miss in Numbers (compared to MS Excel) is the ability to link cell values between different Numbers files. With you being so very clever, I am confident that you would be able to improve some functionalities in the Numbers program, should Apple ever be able to attract your direct services.

[@Jim_in_Portland]

Thanks for sharing this great technique Gary! I know you don't think it is ideal, but it works and that is a LOT. I have wanted something like this for the Notes app, in which I reference external documents often. Apple's recent addition to Notes of inter-note hyperlinks has been great, filling in a gap I've had ever since I left Evernote this year. And your technique for external document linking here fills in yet another piece of the puzzle towards using Notes as the centerpiece of my digital life. Thank you for taking the time to make this instructional video!

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary!👏🏻❤️

[@xad0]

Nice workaround until it could be included built in such as in Notes. Thank you Gary. In addition, I included the first common part of the URL in a keyboard text replacement.

[@peterc2248]

Fascinating but why oh why dont Aplle just call you up, ask you what the most requested features are and then implement them? Much more useful than moving wallpaper and such....come on Apple! 🙂

[@carolinebarlow4795]

Thanks very much, Gary, for this extremely informative video! Some genius workarounds for links here.

[@iberahims]

Been looking for this tutorial and found exactly what I need

[@ryanhaynes9498]

This is so, so useful. Thank you.

[@MrWolfcom]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Yes, I found this very useful! I use it now for opening a numbers file directly from an entry in my calender. Is it possible to expand this shortcut and open a numbers file and jump to a specific row in the document?

[@macmost]

I can't think of an easy way to do that.

[@Musehopper]

Great explanation, at the top in your menu bar there is an icon you tapped left to the wifi icon, what is the app called like?

[@macmost]

Do you mean the ClipTools icon? macmost.com/cliptools

[@georgee3401]

Excellent tutorial. Very useful information. Many thanks !

[@bluetrace3778]

Hey man, this is really good stuff. Cheers

[@shirazigs]

Thank you, Gary! ❤

[@tspmcfarlane]

Great advice

[@genaromartinezcarrer]

Does anyone know which tool is to paste the text? 7:57

[@macmost]

That's ClipTools, my own clipboard manager. It's completely free if you want to try it. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnikoolmhMSSatk

[@MOHAMEDESHAK]

Thank you, Gary, for this amazing tutorial, but when I try to open the second link, this message appears: "The file ..... does not exist." What happened? pls

[@macmost]

Hard to say. Try creating it again. Experiment and try things.

[@colinwhalen1083]

Is there a shortcut action or combination of actions that could first check if the Shortcuts is already open? I was thinking it would be nice to only close Shortcuts at the if it was not already open.

[@macmost]

But if you try to close Shortcuts and it isn't open, then nothing should happen with that action. So what's the difference?

[@colinwhalen1083]

@@macmost I meant if the Shortcuts app was already open for some other purpose the user might not want it after running the OpenFile shortcut.

[@macmost]

@@colinwhalen1083 Ah, I see. You can experiment with that. See if you can check for the Shortcuts app running and then use an if statement to only close it if that variable is set. Or, maybe just not include the quit command if you think that may be the case sometimes for you. Maybe hide Shortcuts instead.

[@veritas.ve.42]

Great video 👍🏻

[@anshulsangal85]

Can we do this same thing in ipad ? Or for ipad Is there other method to link an file in pages and numbers?

[@macmost]

This idea is specifically for Macs.

[@debbiebarton9062]

Thank you!

[@marke2401]

Thank you Gary

[@sneakpeak472]

This is an absolute killer feature for my workflow, except for if the name of the original documnet changes slighlty the hyperlink does not work, any suggestions?

[@macmost]

No workaround for that. You'll just have to be careful with the filename.

[@ersp1]

Try making an alias then and using the path to the alias.

[@kaymartin7822]

Still looking for a way to link within a document, for example, to make someone’s name a link that goes to another part of the same document for more information about that person…

[@stevenshen32]

Hookmark is pretty good.

[@TheseusTitan]

I had TextEdit setup so I could copy a URL and paste (using Command V) it as plain text (just the wording without the hyperlink). I upgraded the OS and it wiped out whatever I had done before. Do you know how to be in rich text format but when pasting a URL it doesn’t have the hyperlink?

[@macmost]

You didn't mention what you were doing before, so it is hard to reply. I know you can copy a link and then use Edit, Paste and Match Style and it will give you text.

[@TheseusTitan]

@@macmost Thank you for your response. If I use Command, Option, Shift + V it will still be a hyperlink. I don’t remember how I hacked it in the past (more than once). How I had it setup in the past before was, I copied a URL and when I clicked on Command V, instead of pasting a hyperlink I got plain text (that is the way I want it, without the hyperlink). Any ideas of how to produce this? I can change the hyperlink once pasted in TextEdit by highlighting the link and with Command K I can remove the link aspects but I don’t want the extra steps if I can remember what I used to hack it in the past.

[@macmost]

@@TheseusTitan Just tried it again. I added a link to a rich text document in TextEdit. Then I selected and copied that link. Using Edit, Paste I get a link. Using Edit, Paste and Match Style I get no link. Maybe something particular about your document or exactly the variation of the steps you are doing?

[@TheseusTitan]

@@macmost I see what you’re saying now. Thank you for sharing that technique. You have an extra step from what I did. You can add a step with Command K too and remove the link too but I used to accomplish that with just Command V after copying. Somehow I removed the automatic link element when pasting into TextEdit but I don’t remember what I did. I may have programmed it through Terminal.

[@sneakpeakscreenprinting1712]

IS there a way for this to work if I am using 2 or 3 different apple computers? this works perfectly on my one computer but does not work when I try this on another one my Macs

[@macmost]

You can play around with having the Shortcut on both and if they have exactly the same paths to the files. But you'd need to experiment.

[@DavidWhite-ct5jm]

Thank you so much!

[@ersp1]

It's so odd that a file:// URL doesn't work, but when you try and open it, Pages just does nothing.

[@Forlando952]

if i export Page’s file in PDF ….. the links work?

[@haraldmuethel7546]

Yes.

[@gawrysiak100]

3:08 #fireeemoji

[@omar-shamonkeeys5704]

🎉thx

[@sneakpeak472]

Great vid🫡

[@dran63]

This is a big drawback in IOS. I can use hyperlink in Office. The job is done.

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

yeah macOS is the winner Sir mostly like your channel name says because macOS is like expensive knife

[@RandallLeeReetz]

Oh my god. This is precisely not a solution to anyone but Rainman.

[@SoNowWhat]

Sorry! Waaaay too involved for me!