I have a Google Doc with tons of hyperlinks within various text strings throughout the document. All the links have the same root URL (say, my.oldsite.com). Recently the site changed their root URL to my.newsite.com and now I need to change all the links to the new root. So I want to FIND 'my.oldsite.com' and REPLACE with 'my.newsite.com'. The built-in Find and Replace is not working for me, hoping someone knows a way.
asked Jan 26, 2017 at 14:55
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I was able to find-and-replace the text of web addresses. Your issue might be something simple; in the "Find and replace" dialog box, make sure you've spelled my.oldsite.com correctly, you are searching "All sheets" instead of a range, and you don't have any other options selected (like Match case, Match entire cell contents, etc.).– BrettFromLAJan 26, 2017 at 17:57
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There is no way to do it natively in Google Docs. Maybe you should use a Docs add-on that could do it.
This add-on allows you to do it (Link URL and Set Link URL) but it is not free, though it is only $5: Advanced Find & Replace
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1Apart from installing a commercial plugin, I'm not finding the function that does this, can you elaborate your answer?– bbozoOct 20, 2017 at 8:40
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Google Docs does not have a feature like that, so I wrote that add-ons might have, but I only found one that costs money. Oct 22, 2017 at 3:01
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1Yeah, but as far as I can see that one doesn't have that feature either– bbozoOct 22, 2017 at 9:55
I have found a way to handle with this.
First, delete the format by selecting the range you want, right-click on the selection and click the remove link option
Then you can make your replacement
And finally, you can use a link with a proper format and copy and paste the format and apply it to your selection (this last step, if you want that your links are underlined and blue)
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3This only works if your link text is the same as your URL. It won't work if your link text is something else. Jun 19, 2022 at 15:15