changing link color after finishing a document

I wrote a long document in Pages using the standard blank template. Is there any way to automatically change the only the color of the words I used as link proxies? These are not discoverable now without carefully sliding the cursor over them.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 3:00 PM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2021 11:02 AM

If you enable View menu > Show Invisibles, all words with a hyperlink assigned to them will appear in a blue box like so:



Then you click that text, which will open the Link Editor. Just click elsewhere in your document to dismiss the link editor and the text will remain selected. Then you can either apply an existing color character style to the text, or select a new color from the color well or color picker. You can even select colored text elsewhere in your document, and from the Format menu > Copy Style, and then the selected link text, you choose Format menu > Paste Style and that will change the link text color too.

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Oct 26, 2021 11:02 AM in response to DMGun

If you enable View menu > Show Invisibles, all words with a hyperlink assigned to them will appear in a blue box like so:



Then you click that text, which will open the Link Editor. Just click elsewhere in your document to dismiss the link editor and the text will remain selected. Then you can either apply an existing color character style to the text, or select a new color from the color well or color picker. You can even select colored text elsewhere in your document, and from the Format menu > Copy Style, and then the selected link text, you choose Format menu > Paste Style and that will change the link text color too.

Oct 26, 2021 8:28 AM in response to DMGun

If your link proxies are set up with the Link character style (as they are by default when you choose create them using Format - Link, then you can change just one of them to the colour you want, then update the style to modify all the others.



Above, I've changed the text attributes of one link to bold and cerise. 'Accumulation' is also a link. When I click Update, all the links get the same text attributes:




Oct 26, 2021 10:46 AM in response to HD

I would not recommend changing the original Pages link character style. I would create another (+) link style which could have a different text color than the link color, or both the same color. Unfortunately, the OP is faced with a drag of the pointer over every word to detect which has a link on it, and that could be tedium redefined.

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