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nineyellowenglish
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August 28, 2024
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Text Anchors in Indesign Book file going to wrong pages

  • August 28, 2024
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Hello All

I'm an experience Indesign user, but I rarely use the "Book" function. I'm working on a very large document (about 400 pages) and have added many separate Indd fiels to my indb file. I created a table of contents, and have been using text anchors to link to pages, but when I export the book to pdf, the links go to the wrong pages.

When I go back into the Indd doc, the links have changed and are wrong in the hyperlink panel. I've done this over and over again--so I know it's not just a mistake.

Any help would be appreciated. 

Correct answer Peter Kahrel

There's no need to do those hyperlinks: when InDesign exports your book, it adds bookmarks so that the TOC is live. Make sure that when you create the TOC you check 'Include book files'. Also, when you export to PDF, check Bookmark, Hyperlink, and Create Tagged PDF.

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Peter Kahrel
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Peter KahrelCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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August 28, 2024

There's no need to do those hyperlinks: when InDesign exports your book, it adds bookmarks so that the TOC is live. Make sure that when you create the TOC you check 'Include book files'. Also, when you export to PDF, check Bookmark, Hyperlink, and Create Tagged PDF.

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    dgbeig
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    January 30, 2025

    Running into an issue when trying to add a manual entry to my TOC for my book file. I have a book file with 14 indesign files. The first two are TOC layouts and are built using styles. I need to add a couple lines in the TOC for places in the book that were not grabbed with styles. When I go to create a line and hyperlink it does not find the corresponding page number. It says that file only has 40 pages (even though it's page 240 in the book). I'm trying bookmarks next but any advice on how to work around that?

    Peter Kahrel
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    Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
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    January 30, 2025

    @dgbeig 

    You shouldn't piggy-back on an existing topic, even if it's related. Create a new topic. I've done that now:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/add-a-manual-entry-to-the-toc-for-a-book-file/m-p/15122728#M608566

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