Improve editing/removing links | Voters

Improve editing/removing links

planned

Federico E

"I want to paste a URL in a document, without it being a live, clickable link. I couldn't do it! I'd love to have an option to remove the active link and just keep the text."
"Link editing is broken. I can remove a link, but when I click on it, it opens. There is no way to edit it."

April 20, 2024

Fred Rivett

Merged in a post:

Link editing is broken. I can remove a link, but when I click on it, it opens. There is no way to edit it.

David S

April 23, 2024

Fred Rivett

marked this post as

planned

This makes a lot of sense, adding this to our list of improvements for handling links though can't promise timelines just yet. Thanks Federico E!
In the meantime, you can remove a link via the command bar (either clicking the button in the top right of the doc, or using cmd+k
 (mac) or ctrl+k
 (windows)).
You can then either click through the options, or use up/down keys and the enter key, or you can just type what you want to filter options, e.g. Remove
 and it'll bring up the remove link option. Let me know if any questions!

Federico E

Fred Rivett Oh, that was hiding in there! Couldn't find it anywhere! Thanks for letting me know.

Fred Rivett

Federico E: No worries at all, there's quite a lot in there now so it's a good spot to get used to used to using if you like keyboard shortcuts!

Federico E

Fred Rivett Awesome! Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, it would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts that work when selecting stuff in the Checks menu. (The one I miss the most is one to launch the Checks you've already selected, like Command+Enter perhaps).

Ren Pahingalo

Hey! So sorry about the delay here — we normally would like to be much faster at resolving issues than this, but you can edit the link by highlighting the word and click the hyperlink button above so that you can edit it. Please refer to the video below. Hope this helps!

David S

Thanks for getting back to me. I can see what you mean, but it's really lame, I have to say. The only way it works for me is if I click in the text near the link and then use arrow keys to move the cursor onto the link. That's super annoying.

Fred Rivett

Totally agree David S, this is one I actually added some detail to today in terms of improvements we need to make here, sorry that this kinda sucks right now and appreciate you keeping us to a high standard! Please do continue to point out the things that suck, hopefully over time they'll be less!