Wrap existing text in link

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I’m using Aspose Words Java.

Suppose you have some existing text (which may or may not contain formatted text, like bolding). How do you turn this into a hyperlink? The insertHyperlink function only allows you to insert static text, so you can’t preserve any of the formatting of the text you want to hyperlink.

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@veered,

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  • Your simplified input Word document
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Here you go: aspose_example.zip (27.5 KB)

To summarize: My code converts bookmarked text to hyperlinked text. This causes the transformed text to lose its formatting (in this case, it loses text bolding).

Here is a simplified version of the code I’m using (written with JRuby): Aspose Example · GitHub

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@veered,

You can workaround this problem by using the following code:

Document doc = new Document("D:\\aspose_example\\input.docx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

BookmarkCollection bookmarks = doc.getRange().getBookmarks();
for (Bookmark bm : (Iterable<Bookmark>) bookmarks) {
    if (bm.getName().equals("borrower1_first_name|0")) {
        builder.moveToBookmark(bm.getName(), true, false);
        Field link = builder.insertHyperlink("", "http://edit/?#{bookmark.name}", false);
        bm.getBookmarkEnd().getParentNode().insertAfter(link.getEnd(), bm.getBookmarkEnd());
    }
}

doc.save("D:\\aspose_example\\awjava-18.8.docx");
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This seems to work! Thanks