I have text documents which have many URLs in them.




I post those documents on my web pages. I paste them into html docs which I upload.


But of course those URLs are not links. The user cannot click on them and navigate away to that place.


All it would need, I think, is a macro that goes through a document and finds every 'https' for instance, parses the line to find the first space and uses that string as the URL and appends the code to make it Link.


I'm not sure, I think that's mainly just <a href:" " isn't it?


I'm thinking, hoping, such a macro or tool has been written and I can get a copy..




p.s. just took a look and it's not quite that simple is it? Many urls have spaces in them nowadays. Perhaps search for the first '/' ? I don't know. A bit beyond me. But anything would probably help. I have literally hundreds to do, true, hundreds...

Valid URLs don't have spaces in them (a space would appear in a valid URL as %20).

Word has an Autoformat command that converts URLs. To find it, add the command called Autoformat... to your Quick Access Toolbar. Clicking this button opens a dialog titled Autoformat and you can then click on the Options button and ensure there is a tick next to 'Internet and network paths with hyperlinks". Click OK (twice) to convert the URL text to hyperlinks

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