How to change links in footnotes into hyperlinks

[arkadian]

Hi there,

I have a gazillion footnotes, most of which contain a non clickable link. Is there an easy way to change a link into an hyperlink?
I have alt. Search and Replace, but I cannot find a way of doing it…

I have read this:

How to disable hyperlinks in Writer

Hi, using LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 on Windows XP sp3. In Writer when I type some URL address like e.g. http://www.google.com or some local address like C:\Windows those links gets underlined with blue color - they actually becomes hyperlinks. I don’t like this. So I have to manually select the URL text and right click on it and selecting Remove Hyperlink. This is a bit annoying. Is there a way to permanently set that all URL texts should not automatically changed into hyperlink, so I would spare thi…

and tried to apply it in reverse (selecting all footnotes using Alt. Search and Replace, but it is not working. URL recognition in autocorrect is selected already.

Thanks

[oweng]

If the Alternate Search and Replace extension supports regular expression capture groups, then it should be possible to trigger URL recognition by inserting a space after each URL. Something like search for: (http://[^ ]*) and replace with: \1 i.e., backslash one followed by a space. Capture groups do not appear to be supported in the LO-provided Search / Replace facility.

[dennisroczek]

that regex won’t work (starting that you have to replace with $1, but that isn’t all!)

[arkadian]

The replace bit didn’t work, or perhaps I should say I could not make it work…
Anyway, I didn’t realize that it was enough to add a space at the end of the link, so I did that manually… That took me only a few ins, and less than it would have taken me to learn how to use regualr expressions