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July 29, 2017
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Identifying text anchors

  • July 29, 2017
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I have a document with numerous text anchors for use as cross-references. I know they're there because the light blue colon shows up when I'm viewing all characters. But when I go to select the cross-reference I want, what I think is the correct text anchor isn't, and creating it as a reference and then clicking Go to Destination takes me to a different one. I'd rather not delete the mystery ones, since they're already used elsewhere in the document and I don't want to have to redo all of them. Is there a way to highlight or select the text anchor and find out what its name is, or rename it? Selecting Hyperlink Destination Options gives me a list of names, but doesn't tell me anything about where they are in the document.

Correct answer Srishti_Bali

Hi Paul,

As per your query, your file has multiple text anchors which do not work correctly and take you to a different destination instead of the one you want.

Please check the below-mentioned link for this.

Insert and manage cross-references in InDesign

Hope this helps!

Regards

Srishti

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Srishti_Bali
Srishti_BaliCorrect answer
Legend
August 23, 2017

Hi Paul,

As per your query, your file has multiple text anchors which do not work correctly and take you to a different destination instead of the one you want.

Please check the below-mentioned link for this.

Insert and manage cross-references in InDesign

Hope this helps!

Regards

Srishti

Participant
March 15, 2023

The cross reference panel doesn't show the name of the text anchors I created - so I can't find them to edit them through the cross reference panel.

Fred.L
Inspiring
July 21, 2024

Hey,

I'm not sure of the relevance of answering a question 1 year+ old, but since I've been looking for similar topic, here's what I've found.

Magic Peter K. at its best again, having though of the issue since … 2012…

Managing Text hanchors

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/text_anchors.html