The conclusion: Designer and even Publisher fail at handling hyperlinks:
- adding a hyperlink manually is a pain
- copy-paste of styled text from a Webbrowser is (a bit depending on the Browser..) very poor: formatting lost, hyperlinks lost
pasting the same content to MS Word works fine (formatting, hyperlinks..) ; copying the Word-Result into Publisher works better ..but hyperlinks are still lost.
I wonder if Affinity does know that lots of DTP is done for electronic documents (PDFs) these days.