Top 3 Ways to Create Hyperlinks in Affinity Publisher 2.0 | Master Digital Planner&Journal Creation

[@marinacosta2584]

Thank you so much! Much easier!

[@printablesbuzzfun]

So glad you found this helpful! :)

[@DanaDavis2014]

Great information! Thank you so very much.

[@printablesbuzzfun]

I’m so glad you like it! If you need more info on creating links, make sure you check out the blog too… there is a plethora of posts at over there. HTTPS://PrintablesBuzz.com

[@nounix]

Hi! :) Maybe you can help/advise on this?... 🙏🙏: I'm having REAL trouble with some hyperlinks that just won't work the way I need them to... Maybe you can help 'cause I must be doing something wrong and I am wasting SOO much time trying to figure out what's going on that I've nearly given up.... Your answer may be really brief (but my question is quite long :( :( as I need to explain what's going on...). I have a 64-page document. Pages 1 and 2 are just the cover page, and the TOC page. Then pages 3 to 38 are "Section 1", pages 39 to 57 "Section 2" and pages 58 to 64 are "Section 3". What I need is to have: a) A hyperlink "button" on ALL pages (3 to 64) that says "Jump back to TOC" and when clicked on you are taken back to the TOC (page 2), This is done! :) b) A hyperlink button on all pages of "Section 1", apart from its first page (so on pages 4 to 38), that says "Jump back to Section start", and when click on will take you to the start of “Section 1” (page 3). This is also done! :) c) A hyperlink button on all pages of "Section 2", apart from its first page (so on pages 40 to 57), that says "Jump back to Section start", and when click on will take you to “Section 2” (page 39). This has failed. d) A hyperlink button on all pages of "Section 3", apart from its first page (so on pages 4 to 38), that says "Jump back to Section start", and when click on will take you to “Section 3” (page 58). This will also fail since "c" doesn't work... To do this I have made a total of 4 master pages to apply throughout the document. One hyperlink "button" on the first master page to take you back to the TOC page, on all pages, And 3 hyperlink buttons, each on the next 3 master pages, each taking you back to the starting page of the corresponding Section, of the 3 in total in the document. So, 1) The first master page has the text "Jump back to TOC" that I've hyperlinked to the TOC page (page 2 ). I then have applied this master page to all the following pages of the document (pages 3 to 64) so that all these pages have this "button". This works! All the buttons take you back to the TOC page (page 2)! :) 2) The next master page has the text "Jump back to start of section" that I've hyperlinked to the first page of "Section 1" (page 3). I then applied this master page to all the following pages of the document (pages 4 to 38). This also works! All the buttons on pages 4 to 38 take you back to the start of this Section (page 3)! : **From here on, start the problems... :( :( :( I don’t seem to be able to create the same "Jump back to start of section" hyperlinks for “Section 2” and for “Section 3”, on the next 2 master pages... :( What I did was: 1) Create a new master page (the 3rd master page) 2) From the previous master page (the 2nd), I copied the (already) hyperlinked text "Jump back to start of section" (which included the hyperlink to page 3). 3) Pasted this text group to the new (3rd) master page - so that it's positioned at the same exact location on this master page, with same font and size, as it was on the previous master page. 4) Right-clicked on this pasted, hyperlinked with the previous target page (3), text and EDITED the existing hyperlink (to go to new target page (page 39, this time)). 5) It failed. The newly edited hyperlink text, on the new master page, does NOT take you to page 39 as I have edited it to, but instead takes you AGAIN to page 3!… So I obv can’t apply this new hyperlinked text (to go to page 39) from the new master page, onto pages 40 to 57, since AP just doesn’t “want” to change the hyperlink page target! It’s like the original hyperlink (to page 3) just can’t be edited to point to a different page than it was originally made to take you to… :( :( What do I have to do to make it work??

[@printablesbuzzfun]

Hi! I have seen this before and it’s a total pain! Have you tried deleting the hyperlink from the hyperlink window and creating a new hyperlink from the window by highlighting the text and clicking the new hyperlink button there? This might solve your problem. I teach how to manage hyperlinks from that window in my course Convert a Printable Planner to a digital Planner in Affinity Publisher.

[@nounix]

Just tried... Nope. :( I right-clicked on the hyperlink -> Interactive -> Delete Hyperlink (before I was selecting "Edit Hyperlink"), but it neither deletes nor edits it (!!)... It's like you just can't get rid of the f*%^ing initial hyperlink... That's crazy! Could it maybe be because I had copied the hyperlinked text from the previous Section's master page to this one (instead of deleting and re-typing the text)? Or maybe because both the hyperlinked texts (now on both master pages) write the same exact thing ("Jump back to start of section"), so AP somehow gets "confused" (lol) and thinks it's still the same thing? Or maybe because I didn't use that ridiculously confusing method of assigning different "character styles" to the ("trying-to-be") different hyperlinks? *BTW I REALLY don't want to go down that nonsensical character-style road which I can't understand and is really confusing and completely inconvenient ;) @@printablesbuzzfun

[@printablesbuzzfun]

Right clicking and going to interactive and deleting the hyperlink is different than using the hyperlink panel or manager as I call it. Check out this help article from Serif. affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Panels/hyperlinksPanel.html?title=Hyperlinks%20panel

[@nounix]

​@@printablesbuzzfun Never mind my question! ;) I found the solution!! How %$#% stupid of Affinity to make this so unnecessarily complicated and hidden.... What I was doing "wrong" (it should have worked this way too, though...) is that I was right-clicking on the text FIELD that had the "Jump back to start of section" text (that was already hyperlinked from the previous master page). Nothing would, then, happen when I would select either Delete or Edit Hyperlink command. What I "had" to, instead, do is to double-click on the text field to "enter" it, then CMD+A to select/highlight all the TEXT, and THEN right-click and either Edit or Delete Hyperlink! Now the new hyperlink that takes you to the new page works!! :) :) HOW ANNOYING to have wasted SO much time to figure this out, when all Affinity had to do was to simply allow the hyperlink's editing, or its deletion, when the text field was simply selected... I mean it makes no sense for this not to be happening when the Delete (or Edit) Hyperlink option IS available in the drop-down menu I when the text field is selected... If it does nothing then what's it there for??? Anyway, I got it to FINALLY work ;)

[@nounix]

is there a way to hyperlink a phone number in the PDF we're making in Affinity Publisher? (So that the phone number's hyperlink will maybe open up a FaceTime app or something on your Mac or PC (or just the phone app to make a regular call if you click on the link from a phone)? Obviously this hyperlink CANNOT be an https link...

[@printablesbuzzfun]

Sure you would just make the hyperlink the html for a phone number. If you want a Facebook messenger window to open with a conversation between you and your user you can do that too. Just use your messenger link. Facebook has documents that will help you find that link if you don’t know it. ☺️ Basically and hyperlink you can use on a webpage you can add to an Affinity Publisher document. On a windows machine the phone link may not work. But on Mac it will if the user has an iPhone that is linked to their computer. I hope this helps!