Links in Footnotes

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In Word, I can paste a URL and if I HIT RETURN, then the link is recognized as a URL (it turns blue and clicking on it takes me there in a browser).

I’ve written 30 pages in Scrivener and I’ve got several footnotes (simple URLs) that turned blue when I compiled to a PDF … but I also see several URL that did not - in fact, they are not blue when I view in Scrivener whereas the “hot” links actually turned blue in Scrivener.

Where is the button or what is the correct way to tell Scrivener that a footnote entry is actually a www link and that is should render it as clickable.

Thanks,
-Luther

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It could be less about footnotes and more about the URLs themselves. The automatic URL detection code makes some simplified assumptions about what a URL should look like, and not every valid URL will trigger a match. In cases such as these, simply copy the URL, select the text and use the Edit/Add Link… menu command to create a real (as opposed to dynamic) link.

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That works well enough for me.

Thanks,
-Luther