Setting Link Default for Hyprlinks Copied in from a Word document?
I have a faculty member who is creating content in Word, then copying and pasting that content into a D2L "Page." When he copies in hyperlinks, the default setting is to open within the window (which is the opposite of the default settings for how links are added anywhere else in D2L). Is anyone aware of a way to edit the default so that those copied links automatically open in a new tab instead?
I tried editing the settings in the Word document to set the target to a new page, but those edits aren't retained when copied from Word into D2L Page. I know that he can edit the links individually within the HTML Editor for the Page, but I was hoping for a way to set that as a default so that the faculty member doesn't have to go in and edit each link individually every time that he does this.
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HI @Kira.H.305,
I don't think that it's possible to set a default for hyperlinks copied in from a Word Document in Brightspace.
I recommend submitting your idea to the Product Idea Exchange so that it can be reviewed by our Product Management Team and considered for a future feature release -
Thanks, Stefanie!
The D2L Support Team helped me find a bit of a workaround with copying the links from within the online Microsoft Word browser instead of from within the Microsoft Word desktop app. For whatever reason, the "open in new window" is retained when copying from the browser instead of the desktop.
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That is such a cool pro-tip!
Thank you for teaching and sharing back what you've learned with me and the Community here!
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