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Inspiring
August 7, 2019
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Simple method to promote bookmark?

  • August 7, 2019
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When manually creating bookmarks in a document, it's fairly simple to demote a bookmark (that is, have it indented as a child of a previous bookmark) by dragging it slightly up until an indicator line shows an indented location.

However, promoting a bookmark cannot be achieved without a 2-step process: first dragging the bookmark above its current parent so it's now a sibling, then dragging the previous parent above the promoted bookmark to correctly order it.

Is there some simpler way that I'm missing? The documents in question are scanned files, so no structure information is available for automatically bookmarking (and there's no intent to create such structure, only to create a hierarchical set of bookmarks.)

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try67
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Community Expert
August 7, 2019

The only thing that's not possible, as far as I can see, is to drag a child bookmark of the last bookmark in the file to be the new (top-level) last bookmark. Everything else is possible, although quite tricky and you have to carefully position the mouse in the right location for it to work properly.

oneDegreeAuthor
Inspiring
August 8, 2019

Yeah, that's precisely what I"m trying to accomplish - glad I'm not the only one finding it impossible.

I'd been adding bookmarks in order of the document, which necessitates moving from a 2nd or 3rd-level bookmark to 1st level when the next major heading is reached.

One workaround I've found is that a new bookmark is always added at the same level as any selected bookmark; thereby I can select the prior sibling of the yet-to-be-created bookmark, and CTRL+B will create a new bookmark at that level, but at the end of the bookmark list.

Of course, this usually involves lots of scrolling through the document, from the bookmark position of the previous top-level (once selected) to the desired page view for the new bookmark.

All in all, seems a bit of an oversight, which could be easily corrected via a context-menu option, or additional buttons on the Bookmarks panel.

try67
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Community Expert
August 8, 2019

You can report a bug and ask for a new feature here: Feature Request/Bug Report Form