Make identical text hyperlinks in InDesign

I have lots of text with the same URL destination, such as 123ABC.com within an InDesign document. I want to make each one a hyperlink. Is there a way I can do that quickly instead of having to go to each section of text that has 123ABC.com and making it a hyperlink? If I could batch that or "apply all", that would be great.

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help help help please - I have latest version of indesign - thanks, DJ

lol... it seems to work, but I have another huge problem!
Apparently .CSV files cannot contain page breaks in the data! The data I am trying to merge is a 'letter', with paragraphs, line breaks, etc.,
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I run a small nonprofit where one of our staffers uses InDesign to design our documents. I often make small text changes and would rather not have to run them through her all the time. Is there any inexpensive Adobe product that would met me make these small changes, since I don't need the full Creative Suite (or even full InDesign) capabilities?

You say that you want an Adobe product, but you may not be aware that
there are other products that may work for you as well, in particular
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I want to bring in text from Word (and the web) that is already hyperlinked into InDesign. How do I do it while keeping the links active?
Whenever I copy/paste from web or Word it removes the hyperlinks. And when I try to do it by "Place"ing a Word document into my InDesign project it keeps the formatting with it, the rectangles around the text.
I have the latest version of InDesign.
Any help is appreciated.

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You can remove them by double-clicking the hyperlink in the Hyperlinks panel and select "Invisible Rectangle" as type.
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Sorry, it's been a while since I solved this, so its not too fresh. There may be pieces missing. Here's the exerpt of what I did to change real html marked-up text (which contains hyperlinks) into real, clickable InDesign hyperlinks. In a few words, I found the html hyperlinks in the text, and "marked it up" with my own "xml" type language (for later). Then I think I made an array of every link and location, then had InDesign go through and convert to hyperlinks.
---CONVERT HREFS TO HYPERLINKS------------------------------------------------------
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --FIND HYPERLINKS
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    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
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    set applied character style of change grep preferences to nothing
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        change grep
    end tell
set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
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    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
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    set change to of change grep preferences to ""
    set applied character style of change grep preferences to nothing
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        set myFoundItems to find grep
        set linkURL to get myFoundItems
    end tell
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        set myFoundTextLinks to find grep
        set linkNames to get myFoundTextLinks
    end tell
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        set end of masterList to {item n of linkURL, item n of linkNames}
        set n to (n + 1)
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        repeat with currentLink in masterList
            set hyperLinklocation to item 2 of currentLink
try
                set hyperLink1 to make hyperlink URL destination with properties {name:item 2 of currentLink as string, destination URL:item 1 of currentLink as string}
            on error
                set hyperLink1 to hyperlink URL destination (item 2 of currentLink as string)
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                set hyperLinkText to make hyperlink text source with properties {source text:hyperLinklocation, hidden:false, applied character style:character style "hyperlink"} --name:item 2 of currentLink as string,
            on error
                set hyperLinkText to hyperlink text source (item 2 of currentLink as string)
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                make new hyperlink with properties {destination:hyperLink1, source:hyperLinkText, hidden:false} --name:item 2 of currentLink as string}
            on error
                make hyperlink with properties {destination:hyperLink1, source:hyperLinkText, hidden:false}
            end try
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    end tell
    set myFoundItems to {}
    set myFoundTextLinks to {}
end tell
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    --REMOVE MARKUP -URLS FROM COPY
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        change grep
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    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
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    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
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    set change grep preferences to nothing
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