Opening a Scrivener link?

Scrivener
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I have copied a link:

How can one open it now?

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Paste it into a file and then click on it.

If you want to see text rather than the URL:

  1. write your link text

  2. select it

  3. press CMD K for a Mac (perhaps CTRL K for Windows) or choose
    Edit → Add Link

  4. enter the URL in the modal as no prefix

  5. Click OK to confirm

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To expand on the above a little, while that will work, it doesn’t demonstrate the advantages of this kind of link. If all you want is an internal link from one item to another in the binder, you can just more easily drag and drop that item into the text editor, or use the “Link to Document” submenu to find it by hand.

What this kind of link does is create something that works system-wide. You can add this link to a Microsoft Word document for example, and it will even go to the trouble of opening up the project for you, and navigating to the item you mean to link to. This is also a way of creating linkages between projects, either as Bookmarks or hyperlinks.

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Paste it into a file and then click on it.

Nothing happens then. The link does not have a link format after pasting it. Or in what file? I pasted it in another word processing program and in Notepad++ or PSD and others. In a doc and foder of Scrivener.

It looks like this: x-scrivener-item://I:/xxxxxx/xxxxx – xxxxxx.scriv?id=4F379F7D-F454-4F91-B573-D684330E1F3B

press CMD K for a Mac (perhaps CTRL K for Windows) or choose
Edit → Add Link

I have Win. CTRL+K splits docs / folders in Scrivener here.

Edit → Add Link works. Seems to be the only one that works.

To expand on the above a little, while that will work, it doesn’t demonstrate the advantages of this kind of link. If all you want is an internal link from one item to another in the binder, you can just more easily drag and drop that item into the text editor, or use the “Link to Document” submenu to find it by hand.

What this kind of link does is create something that works system-wide. You can add this link to a Microsoft Word document for example, and it will even go to the trouble of opening up the project for you, and navigating to the item you mean to link to. This is also a way of creating linkages between projects, either as Bookmarks or hyperlinks.

Thank you. How can I link to an excerpt, phrase of a text? E.g. in a doc (perhaps with dozens of lines)

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I have this phrase “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx” (some lines or whatever) I want set a link to in different docs. How would I do this?

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Here is a how-to on that topic.