marmite Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Hi Folks Absolutely loving Publisher. However ... ... I'm trying to insert a link to a phone number as a URL in a pdf. For the link to work the format should be something like "tel:+44123456789". The only available (and appropriate) option in Publisher to create this link is URL. However if you put "tel:+44123456789" as the URL then the exported pdf contains the link "https://tel:+44123456789", which is invalid. I believe either 1) the output URL should be formatted correctly or 2) a URL of the format "tel:+44123456789" should flag as invalid at the time of input (if the URL box is not intended to hold a phone number). See also this thread ... Link for telephone numbers. Publisher version 1.7.3, MacOS Mojave 10.14.6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyvisiongraphics Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I have the 1.8 version of Publisher and the tel: XXXXXXXX seems to be working fine now. I will admit, I've had issues with this in the past. And today I was again searching for an answer but I couldn't find one. Some trial and error resulted in the following process that works for my exported .pdfs. I hope it works for you as well! I select the shape, right click the mouse, select "Interactive", select "Edit Hyperlink". Select URL. I typed in tel: the telephone number. I placed a space between the colon and the phone number. Hit OK Follow the same process as above for a second time except instead of selecting "Edit Hyperlink", select "Go to Hyperlink Target" and select the phone type. Good luck Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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