I’m having a bit of a puzzle here. When I create a link to some doc from an RTF document in DTP, it preserves style of the link for the text that follows the link.
For example, I type some text in RTF document, then I want to make the last piece of the text a link to some other document. I highlight the piece, right-click, choose ‘Link to’ and select the document to link to. After that continue typing and the text that follows the link I just created has the same style (blue, underlined) as the link, but it’s not part of the link, if you know what I mean (I can see it by hoovering over the text). To correct that, I have to highlight the text again, right-click and choose ‘Styles’ and then scroll to the normal text style and click ‘Apply’.
(EDIT: RTFM’ed and found the shortcut to get to ‘Styles’ quickly)
I would consider the style behaviour a minor bug. What do you think?
I don’t see this behavior myself with links to documents, so I cannot help with that specifically.
However, I do understand the challenge as highlighting a word or passage will behave the same-start typing after the last highlighted word and the new words will also be highlighted. What I do in this case is to type a space, then make my selection and highlight, then right-arrow (may need to right-arrow twice, depending on the selection) to put the cursor at the end of the space. Does this work with the link formatting?
Yes, Greg, the space would help
Maybe even typing text first and linking to documents after that would be a better workflow.
I also created shortcut for “Add Link…” menu item to speed thing up a bit.
