Indesign cs2 - imported word hyperlinks invisible

when i import a word doc the hyper links are invisiblr and have a box around them. i have tried changing the properties with no luck. the only solution i have found was to delte hyper links in word, import and create new links in indesign. takes way to much time, can anyone help.

Hyperlinks invisible and they have a box around them? What's that then, an invisible box?
A "Hyperlink" does not have to be visible. Any word you see, any image, indeed, any box (invisible or not) can be a hyperlink. InDesign is aware of this, and so it defaults to showing a box around text hyperlinks -- but if you don't like that, all you have to do is select the hyperlink and change its properties in the Hyperlinks panel. However, these are the properties of the hyperlink -- not that of the clickable text that's linked. InDesign does not "do" anything to this text, you will have to "make it visible" yourself.
If you want to make links "visible" by making them blue and underlined, you will have to select each one of them and make the text blue & underlined.
But -- if you imported the text out of Word, you usually get a character style applied to all hyperlinks (as this is something that Word does do, whether you like it or not). So changing the character style will change the appearance of all text that have this character style applied to them.

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