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Michael Pearce said 6:45PM on 6-23-2008
You should also uncheck the "Use smart quotes" box and learn how to type the “curly” typographers’ quotes directly (option-[, option-shift-[ and the same for single quotes using the close-bracket: ]). This auto feature is the reason for all the backwards apostrophes in ads, billboards, TV commercials, etc. It also makes it impossible to type feet and inches.
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Stormwater BMP said 12:26PM on 6-23-2008
Very good fix. This was quite an annoying inconvenience, though for security purposes, it's probably best not to list a email address anyway. Some easy Javascripting can shield them from spam collection robots.
http://www.filterra.com
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WetcoastBob said 1:01PM on 6-23-2008
I have already discovered this but a lot of my Pages documents are IT related reference material and contain links.
As I want to keep some of the links, I uncheck the "Make all hyperlinks inactive" box in the inspector. When you type or past something in that you want to use as a hyperlink then highlight it and you can check the "Enable as a hyperlink" and "boom!" you have a link.
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Gabe Jacobs said 4:21PM on 6-23-2008
Another way is to go into the inspector, then hyperlinks, then check "make all hyperlinks inactive"
This is not as good s your fix though
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PA said 3:02AM on 6-24-2008
I don't want the links to turn blue and get underlined but I still want them to work when exporting my document to PDF. Do the links work anymore after they have been disabled from the preferences as described in the article?
Currently I have links enabled and change the links' style to match the normal paragraph style after pasting them in. It requires some unnecessary effort but the links end up working.
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