Digital Workshop

Many of my projects require using COPY & PASTE from Word into an OPUS Text Object. I prefer to do my own formating, so I typically use "Paste Unformated Text." In my current project, there are a lot of URLs. OPUS does a GREAT job of automatically creating a hyperlink and the related Action if you merely put your cursor at the end of the URL and press the SPACE bar. It's like "magic" and saves a lot of time.

In doing final checking on this project, I found many of my links didn't work. Upon investigating, I discover the broken links were always at the end of a sentence, so right after the URL there was a period. In looking at the Launch Web Page Action, I discovered there were periods, and sometimes commas, so the link wouldn't work. As soon as I deleted the period/comma in the Launch Web Page Action, the link/URL worked perfectly.

Learn from my mistake...
In the future when I'm using the automatic hyperlink/URL creation feature in OPUS, I will place my cursor "before" the period/comma, THEN press the SPACE bar. I can then delete the extra space in the visible text, but the hyperlink will be properly coded.